Chalhua
Chalhua | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 146 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 3715 m | |
Post Code | 04-0801-0801-2006 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 19 ° 33 ′ S , 67 ° 26 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Oruro | |
province | Ladislao Cabrera Province | |
climate | ||
![]() Climate diagram Salinas de Garcí Mendoza |
Chalhua (also Challgua ) is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Chalhua is the fourth 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 3715 m between the Cerro José Maria (4057 m) and the Cerro Chota Kkollu (3862 m) eighteen kilometers north of the Salar de Uyuni salt lake .
geography
Chalhua 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
Chalhua is located at a distance of 237 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 increased by almost half in the past decade:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | no detailed data | census |
2001 | 105 | census |
2012 | 146 | 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
- ↑ 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 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)
Web links
- Aspectos Históricos y Socioculturales Marka Villa Esperanza June 2016 ( Spanish )
- Relief map of the Salinas de Garci-Mendoza region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.44 MB)
- Relief map of the Puqui region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 919 kB)
- Municipio Salinas de Garcí Mendoza - General Maps No. 40801
- Municipio Salinas de Garcí Mendoza - detailed map and population data (PDF; 806 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )