Colomi
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_Chapare_Bolivia.jpg) Corani lake near Colomi |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 3914 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 114 | ||
| height | 3300 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-1002-0100-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 20 ′ S , 65 ° 52 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Chapare Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Colomi |
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Colomi is a country town in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Colomi is the central place of the district (Bolivian: Municipio ) Colomi in the province of Chapare . The city is located at an altitude of 3300 m on one of the tributaries to the four kilometers northwest of Corani Lake , a nearly 10 kilometer long lake with an area of about 18 km².
geography
Colomi is located in one of the high valleys of the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental , halfway between the Altiplano and Chapare lowlands. The climate is temperate and a typical daytime climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuations between day and night are greater than between the cold and warm season.
The annual average temperature of the region is just under 11 ° C (see Colomi climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 8 ° C in June / July and just under 14 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is around 550 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 15 mm, and a short humidity period from December to February with 90 to 120 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Colomi is 53 kilometers by road east of the city of Cochabamba , the capital of the department.
The Ruta 4 trunk road runs through Colomi, with a length of 1,657 kilometers across the entire country in a west-east direction. The road begins in the west at Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border, passes Cochabamba and Sacaba and after 430 kilometers reaches Colomi . The road then continues in an easterly direction via Santa Cruz to Puerto Suárez in the Brazilian border area. Apart from the last 700 kilometers to the east, the road is paved throughout.
population
The population of the place has increased only insignificantly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 3 863 | census |
| 2001 | 3 699 | census |
| 2012 | 3,914 | census |
Due to the historically grown ethnic composition, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Colomi 83.5 percent of the population speak the Quechua 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.
- ↑ INE social data 2001 ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2010 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. (PDF; 8.0 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Punata region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.12 MB)
- Municipio Colomi - detailed map and population data (PDF; 397 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Colomi - General Maps No. 31002
- Departamento Cochabamba - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 7.58 MB) ( Spanish )