Chuquichambi
Chuquichambi | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 280 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 3767 m | |
Post Code | 04-1601-0600-6001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 17 ° 54 ′ S , 67 ° 48 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Oruro | |
province | Nor Carangas Province | |
climate | ||
Climate diagram Huayllamarca |
Chuquichambi is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Chuquichambi is the central place of the Cantón Chuquichambi in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Huayllamarca in the province of Nor Carangas . The place is located at an altitude of 3767 m at the breakthrough of the Río Chuquichambi through the Serranía de Huayllamarca , an approximately 100 km long ridge that extends on the Altiplano in a north-west-south-east direction. The Río Chuquichambi flows in a south-easterly direction to the Río Juchuy Jahuira, which flows downstream into Lake Poopó .
geography
Chuquichambi lies between the Andean mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental in the west and the Cordillera Occidental in the east in the Andean 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
Chuquichambi lies at a distance of 86 kilometers by road northwest 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 . The route 31 leads from here to the northwest to the provincial capital Huayllamarca and from there on via Totora to Curahuara de Carangas , where it meets the route 4 towards Chile .
population
The town's population has doubled over the past two decades:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | 135 | census |
2001 | 249 | census |
2012 | 280 | census |
The vast majority of the population in the region belongs to the indigenous Aymara people , in the municipality of Huayllamarca 96 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 dated December 11, 2015 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 Corocoro region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio Huayllamarca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 2.2 MB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Huayllamarca - General Maps No. 41601
- Departamento Oruro - Social data (PDF; 5.9 MB) ( Spanish )