Catavi (Potosí)
| Catavi | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 3834 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 110 | ||
| height | 3777 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0203-0100-8001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 25 ′ S , 66 ° 34 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Rafael Bustillo Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Uncía |
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Catavi is a country town in the Potosí department in the South American Andean highlands of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The mine settlement Catavi is a central place of Canton Llallagua district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Llallagua in the province Rafael Bustillo . The city is located at an altitude of 3777 m ten kilometers north of the provincial capital Uncia and 300 kilometers south of the Bolivian seat of government La Paz .
geography
Catavi lies at the transition from the Oruro highlands to the Potosí mountains. The city is bordered in the north and west by the high mountain ranges of the Cordillera Central . The vegetation is that of the puna , the climate a typical time of day climate in which the mean daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the seasonal fluctuations.
The mean annual average temperature is 9 ° C, the monthly averages vary between just under 5 ° C in June / July and 11 ° C from November to March (see climate diagram Uncía). The annual precipitation is 370 mm and falls mainly in the summer months, the arid period with monthly values of a maximum of 10 mm lasts from April to October.
Transport network
Catavi is located at a distance of 105 km by road southeast of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Oruro, the paved road Ruta 1 leads south 22 kilometers via Vinto to Machacamarquita , eight kilometers north of Machacamarca . In Machacamarquita, Ruta 6 branches off in a south-easterly direction and reaches the city of Llallagua via Huanuni and over pass heights of more than 4,500 m after 79 kilometers , and from there it is another four kilometers to Catavi.
From Llallagua, the route 6 leads another 98 kilometers via Uncía to Macha . In Macha, a dirt road branches off in a south-westerly direction and after 33 kilometers leads back to Ruta 1 at Cruce Culta , the former Ventilla . From here to the department capital Potosí there is another 109 kilometers.
economy
The Catavi tin mines were among the largest and richest ore deposits in the world, but the mining complex has been closed since 1987. Today in Catavi many live Mineros , which on their own or in small cooperatives work or in the old mines in appalling safety conditions the rubble of the huge slag heaps browse for Zinnresten.
population
The population of the village has more than doubled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 632 | census |
| 2001 | 2 060 | census |
| 2013 | 3 834 | census |
Life expectancy in the municipality of Llallagua is 58.2 years, the literacy rate for those over 15 is 83 percent.
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 14, 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.
Web links
- Relief map of the Uncia region 1: 250,000 (JPG; 8.3 MB)
- Municipio Llallagua - detailed map and population data (PDF; 420 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Llallagua - General Maps No. 50203
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )
