Chaquí Baños

Chaquí Baños
Basic data
Residents (state)	751 pop. (2012 census)
height	3690  m
Post Code	05-0302-0101-1002
Telephone code	(+591)
Coordinates	19 ° 38 ′  S , 65 ° 34 ′  W Coordinates: 19 ° 38 ′  S , 65 ° 34 ′  W
Chaquí Baños
politics
Department	Potosí
province	Province of Cornelio Saavedra
climate
Climate diagram Betanzos

Chaquí Baños is a town in the Potosí department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Chaquí Baños is the second largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Chaquí in the province of Cornelio Saavedra and is located at an altitude of 3690 m on the eastern edge of the Pampa Chaquí plain. The village is located on the Río Chipuruni , which flows into the Río Chaquí Mayu , whose water flows further over the Río Puna , the Rio Miculpaya and the Río Mataca to the Río Pilcomayo .

geography

Chaquí Baños is located between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The climate of the region is semi-arid and a typical time of day climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are greater than during the year.

The annual average temperature in the region is around 17 ° C (see Betanzo's climate diagram), the monthly values ​​fluctuate only slightly between 14 ° C in June / July and 19 ° C from November to January. The annual rainfall is just under 500 mm, the dry season lasts from April to October with monthly values ​​below 30 mm, only in January a rainfall of 100 mm is reached.

Transport network

Chaquí Baños is located 41 kilometers by road east of Potosí , the capital of the department.

From Potosí, the national highway Ruta 5 leads northeast via Betanzos to Sucre and on towards Santa Cruz in the Bolivian lowlands. Halfway between Potosí and Betanzos, a country road branches off in a southerly direction, after ten kilometers it reaches the village of Chaquí and then continues to Chaquí Baños, another five kilometers away, with its hot thermal springs . The road connection from Ruta 5 to Chaquí Baños is currently (as of 2009) under construction.

population

The population of Chaquí Baños has increased by half in the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	500	census
2001	519	census
2012	751	census

Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Chaquí 81 percent of the population speak the Quechua 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.  
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.  
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.  
4. ↑ INE social data Potosí 2001 ( Memento of the original from December 15, 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. (PDF; 5.5 MB)  

Web links

• Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
• Municipio Chaquí - detailed map and population data (PDF; 408 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Chaquí - general maps No. 50302
• Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )