Chirca
| Chirca | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 126 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2127 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1101-0200-1003 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 23 ′ S , 67 ° 35 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | South Yungas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Chulumani |
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Chirca is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Chirca is the central place of the canton Chirca in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Chulumani in the province Sud Yungas . The village lies at an altitude of 2127 m in the valley of the Río Tamampaya , which emerges from the Río Unduavi and flows over the Río Boopi to the Río Beni .
geography
Chirca is located in the Bolivian Yungas on the eastern slope of the high mountain ridge of the Cordillera Real . The climate is a typical time of day climate in which the mean fluctuation in daytime temperatures is more pronounced than the seasonal fluctuations.
The mean average temperature of the region is 21 ° C (see climate diagram Chulumani), the mean monthly values 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.
Transport network
Chirca is located 122 kilometers by road east of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From La Paz the asphalted highway Ruta 3 leads sixty kilometers northeast to Unduavi , from there the unpaved Ruta 25 branches off in a southeast direction along the Río Unduavi, which it crosses after 44 kilometers at Puente Villa . From there it continues via Chulumani , Inquisivi and Independencia (Ayopaya) and after a total of 481 kilometers at Vinto it meets Ruta 4 , which reaches Cochabamba for a further 15 kilometers .
Sixteen kilometers east of Puente Villa, a dirt road branches off in Huancapampa in a southerly direction from Ruta 25 and after another six kilometers reaches Chirca .
population
The population of Chirca has been subject to significant fluctuations over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 120 | census |
| 2001 | 190 | census |
| 2012 | 126 | census |
The village has a high proportion of Aymara population.
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 December 19, 2014 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.
Web links
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Chulumani - General Maps No. 21101
- Municipio Chulumani - detailed map and population data (PDF; 361 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )