Catuyo

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Catuyo
Basic data
Residents (state) 196 pop. (2012 census)
height 3737  m
Post Code 04-0801-0801-1004
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 19 ° 33 ′  S , 67 ° 24 ′  W Coordinates: 19 ° 33 ′  S , 67 ° 24 ′  W
Catuyo (Bolivia)
Catuyo
Catuyo
politics
Department Oruro
province Ladislao Cabrera Province
climate
Climate diagram Salinas de Garcí Mendoza
Climate diagram Salinas de Garcí Mendoza

Catuyo is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Catuyo is the second largest town in the canton of Villa Esperanza in the municipality of Salinas de Garcí Mendoza in the province of Ladislao Cabrera . The village is located at an altitude of 3737  m northeast of Cerro Huanasa (4265 m) eighteen kilometers north of the salt lake Salar de Uyuni .

geography

Catuyo is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east.

The climate is arid , the annual precipitation is only 200 mm (see climate diagram Salinas de Garcí Mendoza), with a pronounced dry season from April to November with only sporadic precipitation; only in the summer from December to March there is significant rainfall between 20 and 70 mm per month. The mean average temperature of the region is around 4.5 ° C and fluctuates only slightly between 0 ° C in July and 7 ° C in January.

Transport network

Catuyo is located at a distance of 241 kilometers by road southwest of the departmental capital Oruro .

From Oruro, the Ruta 1 highway runs for 116 kilometers in a southerly direction through the cities of Machacamarca and Poopó to Challapata . In Challapata, the Ruta 30 branches off to the southwest and after 30 kilometers leads via Santiago de Huari to the Río Laca Jahuira . Immediately after crossing the river bed, a country road branches off in a westerly direction, which leads via Santuario de Quillacas and Bengal Vinto to Tambo Tambillo and on to Salinas de Garcí Mendoza .

Ten kilometers southwest of Tambo Tambillo the road passes the volcanic crater of Jayu Quta , and after another five kilometers a dirt road branches off in a southerly direction and continues via Chalhua to Catuyo and Puqui .

population

The population of the village has doubled in the past decade:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 93 census
2012 196 census

Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Salinas de Garcí Mendoza 85.3 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .

Individual evidence

  1. 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo
  2. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo
  3. 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. INE social data 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)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo

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