Caripuyo
| Caripuyo | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 554 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3353 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0702-0100-8001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 14 ′ S , 66 ° 28 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Alonso de Ibáñez province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Caripuyo |
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Caripuyo is a town in the Potosí department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Caripuyo is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Caripuyo in the province of Alonso de Ibáñez . The village is located at an altitude of 3353 m in the Cordillera Azanaques on the left, northern bank of the Río Caripuyo , which flows to the Río Chayanta and over the Río San Pedro to the Río Grande .
geography
Caripuyo is located in the northern foothills of the Bolivian Cordillera Central and has a distinct daytime climate, in which the mean temperature fluctuation during the day is more pronounced than during the year.
The annual average temperature is 13 ° C (see climate diagram Caripuyo), the monthly values fluctuate between almost 9 ° C in June / July and almost 16 ° C in November / December. The climate is semi-arid , the monthly rainfall from April to October is below 20 mm, only from December to March there is significant rainfall between 75 and 120 mm per month.
Transport network
Caripuyo is located at a distance of 279 kilometers by road northwest of Potosí , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Potosí, the Ruta 1 highway leads in a north-westerly direction over 109 kilometers to the village of Ventilla . There a dirt road branches off to the northeast and reaches the town of Macha after 33 kilometers . There it meets Ruta 6 , which leads via Uncía and Llallagua in a north-westerly direction to Oruro . Fourteen kilometers after Llallagua, a dirt road branches off to the northeast and after 39 kilometers reaches Caripuyo .
population
The population of the place has increased by more than half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 359 | census |
| 2001 | 472 | census |
| 2012 | 554 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Caripuyu 68.3 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
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 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.
- ↑ 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 2001 ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2011 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; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Uncia region 1: 250,000 (JPG; 8.3 MB)
- Municipio Caripuyo - General Maps No. 50702
- Municipio Caripuyo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 431 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )
