Campamento Bolívar
| Campamento Bolívar | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1120 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3998 m | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 29 ′ S , 66 ° 51 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Poopó Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Antequera |
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Campamento Bolívar was a town in the Oruro department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Campamento Bolívar was a mining settlement belonging to the "Mina Bolívar" in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Antequera in the province of Poopó . The location situated at an altitude of 3998 m in the immediate vicinity of the location Antequera on the upper reaches of the river Antequera, that of in the further course in the eastern part Poopó Lake opens an approximately 1,300 square kilometers large Salt Lake south of the city Oruro . Since the 2012 census, Campamento Bolívar has merged with Antequera into one town.
geography
Campamento Bolívar is located on the Bolivian Altiplano on the western edge of the Cordillera Azanaques , a section of the Cordillera Central . The region has a typical daytime climate in which the mean temperature fluctuation between day and night is more pronounced than the fluctuation over the course of the year.
The mean annual temperature of the region is around 6 ° C (see Antequera climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 1 ° C in July and a good 8 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is 325 mm, the monthly precipitation is less than 10 mm in the months April to October and only falls from December to March in a significant amount of 50 to 85 mm.
Transport network
Campamento Bolívar is located 99 kilometers south of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Desaguadero on Lake Titicaca , the asphalted highway Ruta 1 crosses the Bolivian highlands in a north-south direction. It leads via El Alto and Oruro to Pazña and from there on in a southerly direction via Potosí and Tarija to Bermejo on the Bolivian- Argentine border.
In Pazña a dirt road branches off in a north-easterly direction into the Antequera Valley and leads to the towns of Avicaya , Totoral , Campamento Bolívar and Antequera .
population
The population of the village has decreased over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 735 | census |
| 2001 | 1 120 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Antequera 63.7% of the population speak the Quechua language .
Cañadón Peñas
Cañadón Peñas ( cañadón = field in the valley that is flooded when it rains; peña = rock, mountain ) is the name for a development project in the canton of Peñas that has been supported by German World Hunger Aid since around 2005 as one of fifteen " Millennium Villages " . In joint workshops, the impoverished inhabitants of the Peñas Valley, together with experts from Welthungerhilfe, have drawn up a five-year plan, the improvements of which are to be implemented in four areas: nutrition, the economy, education, and a say for women. These goals are to be achieved through improvements in animal husbandry, the establishment of small cheese factories and the establishment of schools with lunch. With this project, Welthungerhilfe is not only supporting the 400 families in the Peñas Valley, but also the 13,000 rural residents of the Pazña and Antequera region, whose schools are involved in the project.
Individual evidence
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE social data Oruro 2001 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6.2 MB)
- ↑ Welthungerhilfe ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Relief map of the Uncia region 1: 250,000 (JPEG; 8.22 MB)
- Municipio Antequera - General Maps No. 40603
- Municipio Antequera - detailed map and population data (PDF; 235 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )
