Chima (La Paz)
| Chima | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1576 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 500 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-0606-0170-9002 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 15 ° 33 ′ S , 67 ° 59 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Larecaja Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Mapiri |
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Chima (Aymara " Chima Jaukata " = German "punished place") is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Chima is the second largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Tipuani in the province of Larecaja . The village is located at an altitude of about 500 m above the Río Tipuani , which flows from the northern slope of the Illampú at Guanay into the Río Mapiri , a tributary of the Río Beni .
geography
Chima is located northeast of Lake Titicaca on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Real .
The mean average temperature of the region is around 24 ° C, the annual precipitation is around 1400 mm (see Mapiri climate diagram).
The region has no pronounced temperature profile, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between 21 ° C in June and July and 26 ° C from November to January, and the day and night temperatures also show only slight fluctuations. The monthly precipitation is between under 50 mm in the months of June and July and about 200 mm from December to February.
economy
The Tipuani Valley is the most important gold mining area in Bolivia, whereby the gold finds are only of low productivity, so that 90 percent of the population live below the poverty line. The mining takes place both in the open pit and underground down to a depth of about 100 m. To stabilize the mine shafts, the natural forest around the Tipuani valley has been cleared to a large extent in the past centuries, so that barren grasslands have spread here, which no longer give the steep slopes of the Tipuani valley sufficient support. In March 2003, for example, a landslide claimed more than a hundred deaths when the Cerro Pucaloma practically collapsed and a three-hundred-meter-high slope fell over the village, benefiting from undercutting from gold mining above Chima.
Transport network
Chima is located about 270 kilometers by road north of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz, the partially paved road Ruta 3 leads in a north-easterly direction 160 kilometers via Cotapata to Caranavi , from there branches off the unpaved Ruta 25 , which reaches Guanay after 70 kilometers and continues to Mapiri and Apolo . From Guanay there is a three-hour drive on hardly paved roads in a south-westerly direction along the Río Tipuani to the city of Chima .
population
The city's population has fallen sharply over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 3 302 | census |
| 2001 | 1 936 | census |
| 2013 | 1 576 | census |
Due to historical immigration, the region has a not insignificant proportion of indigenous population , in the municipality of Tipuani 28.8 percent of the population speak the Aymara language and 15.5 percent speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tree sponsorships for reforestation and management of the Tipuani Valley, Bolivia
- ↑ 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 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 - 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 La Paz 2001 ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 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. (PDF file; 11.63 MB)
Web links
- Photo Chima
- Photo landslide Chima
- Child Laborers in the Bolivian Mining Sector (DOC file; 70 kB) (English)
- Relief map of the Sorata region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 12.81 MB)
- Municipio Tipuani - detailed map and population data (PDF; 390 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Tipuani - General Maps No. 20606
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )