Challuma
Challuma | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 289 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 3730 m | |
Post Code | 04-0801-0500-2003 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 19 ° 7 ′ S , 67 ° 28 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Oruro | |
province | Ladislao Cabrera Province | |
climate | ||
![]() Climate diagram Salinas de Garcí Mendoza |
Challuma (also: Chalhuma ) is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Challuma is the largest town in the Ucumasi Canton in the Salinas de Garcí Mendoza municipality in the Ladislao Cabrera province . The village is located at an altitude of 3730 m six kilometers south of the Río Laca Jahuira , which flows from Lake Poopó in a westerly direction to the Salar de Coipasa .
geography
Challuma 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
Challuma is located at a distance of 245 kilometers by road southwest of Oruro , the capital of the department.
The Ruta 1 road leads south from Oruro and reaches the town of Poopó after 53 kilometers and the town of Challapata after another 63 kilometers . From here, the Ruta leads 30 kilometers south via Santiago de Huari . After crossing a river, a dirt road turns southwest and after 19 kilometers leads to Santuario de Quillacas .
The road continues in a south-westerly direction via Bengal Vinto and Playa Verde to Salinas de Garcí Mendoza and the salt lake Salar de Uyuni . In Playa Verde, an inconspicuous unpaved side road branches off in a northerly direction, reaches Aroma after another ten kilometers , and from there a country road also leads north to Ucumasi . In Ucumasi a country road branches off in a westerly direction and reaches Challuma after five kilometers .
population
The population of the village has increased dramatically in the past decade:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | no detailed data | census |
2001 | 101 | census |
2012 | 289 | 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
- Relief map of the Río Mulato region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.12 MB)
- Relief map of the Ucumasi region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 806 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 )