Campanario (Tarija)
| Campanario | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 425 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3517 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0502-0700-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 31 ′ S , 64 ° 59 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | Province of Eustaquio Méndez | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Yunchará |
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Campanario is a town in the Tarija Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Campanario is the third largest town in the canton of Iscayachi in the municipality of El Puente in the province of Eustaquio Méndez . The village is located at an altitude of 3517 m in the Cordillera de Sama Biological Reserve on the left, western bank of the Río Tomayapo , which flows downstream into the Río San Juan del Oro .
geography
Campanario is located in the south-eastern part of the barren plateau of the Bolivian Altiplano . The climate is cool and dry because of the inland location and is characterized by a typical daytime climate, in which the mean temperature fluctuations between day and night are usually significantly greater than the seasonal fluctuations.
The annual average temperature is 11 ° C (see Yunchará climate diagram) and fluctuates only slightly between a good 6 ° C in June / July and a good 14 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is just under 400 mm, with a strongly pronounced dry season from April to October with monthly precipitation below 15 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with 80–95 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Campanario lies at a distance of 64 kilometers by road west of Tarija , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Tarija the highway Ruta 1 leads north, pierces the Cordillera de Sama in a north-westerly direction and continues via the village of San Lorencito to Camargo , Padcoyo and Potosí . In San Lorencito, a dirt road branches off in a southerly direction and reaches Iscayachi after a further eleven kilometers. From there the road transferred Campanario further south, passing through Pampa de Tajzara with the salt lakes Laguna Tajzara and Laguna Grande , and then turning south of the Laguna Grande to the west, reaching over Yunchará the Ruta 14 , of Villazón on the Argentinian border leads to the provincial capital Tupiza and on to Potosí.
population
The population of the village has increased slightly in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 413 | census |
| 2012 | 425 | census |
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 2001 ( Memento of the original from January 7, 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.
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
Web links
- Relief map 6629-III of the Tolomosa region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 1.93 MB)
- Relief map of the Tarija region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.07 MB)
- Municipio El Puente - General Maps No. 60502
- Municipio El Puente - detailed map and population data (PDF; 466 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Tarija - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )