Cajamarca (Sucre)

Cajamarca
Basic data
Residents (state)	126 pop. (2012 census)
height	3280 m
Post Code	01-0101-1300-1001
Telephone code	(+591)
Coordinates	18 ° 58 ′ S , 65 ° 24 ′ W Coordinates: 18 ° 58 ′ S , 65 ° 24 ′ W
	Cajamarca
	Cajamarca
politics
Department	Chuquisaca
province	Oropeza Province
climate
	; Climate diagram Sucre

Cajamarca is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Cajamarca is the third largest town in the canton of Mamahuasi in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Sucre in the province of Oropeza . The village is located at an altitude of 3280 m in a valley region east of the Cordillera de los Frailes, which runs from north to south .

geography

Cajamarca is east of the Altiplano in the Bolivian Cordillera Central . The climate is a moderate altitude climate and a typical time of day climate , in which the average temperature fluctuation is greater during the day than during the year.

The annual average temperature in the region is around 16 ° C (see climate diagram Sucre), the monthly averages fluctuate between 14 ° C in June / July and 17 ° C in October / November. The annual precipitation is about 700 mm and has five arid months from May to September with monthly values below 25 mm, and a significant humidity period from December to February with monthly precipitation between 125 and 150 mm.

Transport network

Cajamarca is located at a distance of thirty kilometers by road northwest of Sucre , the capital of the department.

The 976 kilometer long highway Ruta 6 leads through Sucre, which leads from the Bolivian lowlands on the border with Paraguay in the east via Padilla to Sucre and on to Oruro in the highlands. From Sucre, the road leads past the city's airport in a north-westerly direction, and after 22 kilometers a dirt road branches off from Ruta 6 in a south-westerly direction near the village of Punilla and continues west to Potolo . Three kilometers south of Punilla, an unpaved side road branches off to the north and after another four kilometers reaches Cajamarca .

population

The population of the village has hardly changed in the decade between the last two censuses:

year	Residents	source
1992	no detailed data	census
2001	120	census
2012	126	census

Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Sucre 61.6 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.

Ecological project Cajamarca

The Ecological Youth Center CEJ (Centro Ecológico Juvenil) was founded in 1990 in the municipality of Cajamarca through an initiative of the Sucre University of Education. The aim was to combine reforestation with forest management and regional development in this arid and erosion-prone region. In the 25 years of existence of the CEJ, the initially skeptical attitude of the local smallholders has long since turned into active participation. Hundreds of thousands of trees have been planted on an area of 500 hectares in the barren high Andes region, which have permanently changed the appearance of the mountain valley: The climate has become more balanced and the newly formed humus layer binds the precipitation, so that the city of Sucre is also supplied the water from this brook valley has now doubled. Particularly noteworthy is the transfer of ownership of 85 hectares of reforestation land to six young girls from Campesino families in the Cajamarca Valley, on the condition that they reforest their land for twenty years with the support of the CEJ.

The co-initiator of the project is the German Annelie Dehmel, who, together with her husband Peter, has now received several awards for her sustainable project work:
In 2010, Annelie Dehmel received the "Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho" award for special social, cultural and ecological achievements in the Chuquisaca district /Bolivia.
In 2013 she received a personal award for special commitment to human rights from the "Asamblea de Derechos Humanos" in Chuquisaca.
And in 2015 she was awarded the “Trophée de Femmes” prize by the “Fondation Yves Rocher” in Stuttgart for her exemplary commitment to the environment.