Canchas Mayu
| Canchas Mayu | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 133 pop. (2001 census) | ||
| height | 2137 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0201-0300-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 54 ′ S , 64 ° 54 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | Province of Aniceto Arce | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Padcaya |
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Canchas Mayu (also: Canchasmayo ) is a town in the Tarija Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Canchas Mayu is the third largest town in the canton of Camacho in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Padcaya in the province of Aniceto Arce . The village is situated at an altitude of 2,137 m on the right, the eastern shore of the Río Camacho , further downstream of the 37 kilometers of the city uriondo : (formerly Uriondo flows past and the) Río Guadalquivir flows, the farther down the name of Tarija River carries .
geography
Canchas Mayu is located in southern Bolivia a few kilometers east of the biological reserve of the Cordillera de Sama in the transition to the Bolivian Chaco lowlands.
The mean average temperature of the region is 13.5 ° C (see Padcaya climate diagram), the monthly averages fluctuate between 9 ° C in June and July and 17 ° C in December and January. The annual precipitation is 630 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with monthly precipitation well over 100 mm.
Transport network
Canchas Mayu is 69 kilometers by road south of Tarija , the capital of the department.
From the Tarija, the paved road Ruta 1 leads southeast towards the cities of Padcaya and Bermejo . After seventeen kilometers from the main road, the paved road Ruta 45 branches off to the west, after five kilometers it crosses the valley of the Río Guadalquivir and after three kilometers you reach the village of Valle de Concepción . From there it leads as a dirt road in a south-westerly direction Padcaya via Chocloca , and Juntas and Chaguaya to Abra de San Miguel . Here the unpaved route 28 branches off to the west and leads via Cañas to Canchas Mayu and on to the village of Camacho .
population
The population of the village has decreased to less than a third in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 433 | census |
| 2001 | 253 | census |
| 2012 | 133 | 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 February 22, 2016 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 - 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.
Web links
- Relief map of the Tarija region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.07 MB)
- Municipio Padcaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 670 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Padcaya - General Maps No. 60201
- Departamento Tarija - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )