Challa Grande
| Challa Grande | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 529 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3957 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-1101-0300-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 42 ′ S , 66 ° 39 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Tapacarí province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Challa Grande |
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Challa Grande is a town in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Challa Grande is the central place of the Cantón Challa in the municipality of Tapacarí in the province of Tapacarí . The village is located at an altitude of 3957 m on one of the tributaries to the Río Tacopaya , one of the headwaters of the Bolivian Río Grande .
geography
Challa Grande is located west of the Bolivian Altiplano in the eastern foothills of the Serranía de Sicasica . The climate is a typical time of day climate in which the mean daily temperature fluctuations are higher than the seasonal fluctuations.
The annual average temperature of the region is around 6 ° C (see Challa Grande climate diagram) and fluctuates only slightly between 2 ° C in June and July and a good 8 ° C in November and December. The annual precipitation is around 650 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to August with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with up to 155 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Challa Grande is located 108 kilometers by road southwest of Cochabamba , the capital of the department.
From Cochabamba, the paved road Ruta 4 leads in a westerly direction via the towns of Quillacollo and Parotani into the barren mountains of the Serranía de Sicasica and on to Challa Grande . To the west of the village, the road continues via Japo Kasa to Lequepalca and Caracollo , where it meets Ruta 1 , which crosses the Altiplano from north to south and provides connections to La Paz , Oruro and Potosí .
population
The population of the village has remained almost unchanged in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 529 | census |
| 2001 | 539 | census |
| 2012 | 529 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Tapacarí 75.5 percent of the population speak the Quechua 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 May 31, 2014 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet 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 November 13, 2010 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; 8.0 MB)
Web links
- Local photo of Challa Grande
- Cochabamba region - Relief map 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.61 MB)
- Bolívar region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.78 MB)
- Municipio Tapacarí - detailed map and population data (PDF; 408 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Tapacarí - General Maps No. 31101
- Departamento Cochabamba - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 7.58 MB) ( Spanish )
