Chicaloma
| Chicaloma | |||
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 Yungas in Bolivia |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 768 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 1677 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1102-0500-1002 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 27 ′ S , 67 ° 29 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | South Yungas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Chulumani |
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Chicaloma is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Chicaloma is the central place of the canton Chicaloma and the second largest place in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Irupana in the province Sud Yungas . The village is located at an altitude of 1677 m about fifteen kilometers as the crow flies northwest of the Río Boopi , a source river of the Río Beni .
geography
Chicaloma is located in the Bolivian Yungas on the eastern slope of the high mountain ridge of the Cordillera Real . The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than in the course of the seasons.
The annual average temperature of the region is 21 ° C (see climate diagram Chulumani), the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between 18 ° C in July and 22 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is about 1150 mm, the monthly precipitation is between about 20 mm in the months of June and July and more than 150 mm from December to February.
traffic
Chicaloma is located about 150 kilometers by road east of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the paved road Ruta 3 leads north-east for 60 kilometers to Unduavi , from there the unpaved route 25 branches off in a south-easterly direction and reaches Irupana via Chulumani after 97 kilometers . From there an unpaved road leads to Chicaloma .
population
The population of the settlement has been subject to significant fluctuations in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 731 | census |
| 2001 | 634 | census |
| 2012 | 768 | census |
The village has a high proportion of Afro-Bolivian population. They are descendants of people displaced from Africa who were brought to Bolivia by the Spaniards to work in the mines and were later relocated to the Yungas.
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 of October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Chicaloma, un pueblo africano en el corazón de sudamerica July 26, 2001
Web links
- Municipio Irupana - detailed map and population data (PDF; 408 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Irupana - General Maps No. 21102
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )