Chuquini

Chuquini
Basic data
Residents (state)	1209 pop. (2012 census)
height	902 m
Post Code	02-0606-0400-3001
Telephone code	(+591)
Coordinates	15 ° 36 ′ S , 68 ° 5 ′ W Coordinates: 15 ° 36 ′ S , 68 ° 5 ′ W
	Chuquini
	Chuquini
politics
Department	La Paz
province	Larecaja Province
climate
	; Climate diagram Mapiri

Chuquini is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Chuquini is one of the localities in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Tipuani in the province of Larecaja . The village is located at an altitude of 902 m on a right tributary of the Río Tipuani , which flows from the northern slope of the Illampu at Guanay into the Río Mapiri , a tributary of the Río Beni .

geography

Chuquini is located northeast of Lake Titicaca on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Real . The exact location of the village can be seen from the current detailed map 1: 10000 at GeoBolivia.

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. Mining takes place both in open-cast mining and in underground mines that are up to 100 m deep. 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 above the village of Chima claimed more than a hundred lives, and similar disasters have occurred in two other villages in the valley in the meantime. Since the gold finds in the river and the mines are not very productive, 90 percent of the population live below the poverty line, so that the town of Unutuluni is also very poor.

Transport network

Chuquini is located about 300 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 town of Tipuani and from there via Molleterio to Chuquini .

population

The population of the village has increased significantly in the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	no detailed data	census
2001	990	census
2012	1209	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.