Choquecota
| Choquecota | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 194 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3876 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0302-0100-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 6 ′ S , 67 ° 54 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Carangas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Huayllamarca |
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Choquecota (also Choque Cota , Quechua Chuqiquta , Aymar Chuqi Quta ) is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Choquecota is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Choquecota in the province of Carangas . The place is located at an altitude of 3876 m on the western edge of the Serranía de Huayllamarca , an approximately 100 km long ridge that extends in the Bolivian highlands in a north-west-south-east direction. The Río Jucuruma flows past Choquecota in a south-westerly direction, which flows into the Río Barras , which flows downstream into the Salar de Coipasa .
geography
Choquecota lies between the Andean mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental in the west and the Cordillera Occidental in the east in the dry climate of the Altiplano .
The mean annual precipitation is about 330 mm and falls 80 percent in the months of December to March (see Huayllamarca climate diagram). The annual average temperature is almost 8 ° C, the monthly average values fluctuate between 4 ° C in June / July and around 10 ° C from November to March.
Transport network
Choquecota is 119 kilometers west of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Oruro, the paved road Ruta 31 leads west via La Joya and Lajma to Chuquichambi and on via the provincial capital Huayllamarca and Totora to Curahuara de Carangas , where it meets Ruta 4 towards Chile . In Chuquichambi a dirt road leads in a south-westerly direction via Belén de Choquecota to Choquecota and also on to Totora.
population
The town's population has halved over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 381 | census |
| 2001 | 333 | census |
| 2012 | 194 | census |
The vast majority of the population in the region belongs to the indigenous Aymara people , in the municipality of Choquecota 79.7 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.
Web links
- Relief map of the Nevado Sajama region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.0 MB)
- Municipio Choquecota - General Maps No. 40302
- Municipio Choquecota - detailed map and population data (PDF; 336 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )