Chaco (Chuquisaca)
| Chaco | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 771 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| Post Code | 01-0101-0701-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 54 ′ S , 65 ° 7 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Oropeza Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Poroma |
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Chaco is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Chaco is the largest town in the canton of Mojotoro in the municipality of Sucre in the province of Oropeza . The village is located at an altitude of 1930 m at the confluence of the Río Pajcha in the Río Chico , which flows downstream after a further 39 kilometers into the Bolivian Río Grande .
geography
Chaco lies between the Altiplano and the Bolivian lowlands in the ridge of the Bolivian Cordillera Central . The climate is a cool, moderate mountain climate with a typical time of day climate , in which the temperature differences fluctuate more strongly during the day than during the year.
The average temperature of the region is around 17 ° C (see Poroma climate diagram) and fluctuates over the course of the year between almost 14 ° C in July and 19 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is a good 600 mm, with the monthly precipitation in the half-yearly dry season from April to October being below 30 mm, while in the southern summer from December to February monthly values between 120 and 150 mm are reached.
Transport network
Chaco is 44 kilometers east of Sucre , the capital of the department.
By Sucre leading highway Ruta 5 , identified by the Chilean border in the west via Uyuni and Potosí to Sucre leads and further in an easterly direction over Chaco and Chuqui Chuqui in the lowland of Santa Cruz , where in La Palizada the Ruta 7 applies.
At the village of Chaco, Route 5 crosses the Río Pajcha, and a country road that branches off from there in a north-easterly direction leads to the village of Pajcha, fourteen kilometers away .
population
The population of the village has increased slightly in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 727 | census |
| 2012 | 771 | census |
Due to the historically grown population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, despite the municipal function of the municipality in the capital, 61.6 percent of the population in the municipality of Sucre still speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 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 2001 ( Memento of the original dated November 23, 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.
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
- ↑ INE social data Chuquisaca 2001 ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 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; 4.4 MB)
Web links
- Relief map 6537-II of the Pajcha region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.34 MB)
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Sucre - General Maps No. 10101
- Municipio Sucre - detailed map and population data (PDF; 738 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )