Colquechaca
| Colquechaca | |||
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 Alley in Colquechaca |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 4272 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 102 | ||
| height | 4167 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0401-0100-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 42 ′ S , 66 ° 0 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Chayanta Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Colquechaca |
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Colquechaca is a town in the Potosí department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Colquechaca is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Colquechaca and capital of the province Chayanta . The village is located at an altitude of 4167 m halfway between the capital Sucre and Lake Poopó .
geography
Colquechaca is located in the central western section of the Bolivian Cordillera Central , which extends as part of the eastern Andean chain between the Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian lowlands in the east. The region's climate is typical of the time of day , with mean temperatures fluctuating more during the day than during the year.
The long-term average annual temperature is around 4 ° C (see Colquechaca climate diagram), the monthly values range between 0 ° C in June / July and 6 ° C from November to January. The annual rainfall is 460 mm, from May to August there is a dry season of less than 5 mm of precipitation per month, while the amount of precipitation in January and February reaches about 100 mm.
population
The town's population has almost doubled over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 2 234 | census |
| 2001 | 1 816 | census |
| 2012 | 4 272 | census |
Transport network
Colquechaca is located 171 kilometers by road north of Potosí , the capital of the department.
From Potosí the highway Ruta 1 leads in a north-westerly direction to Cruce Culta (formerly: Ventilla ) and on via Oruro towards La Paz and Lake Titicaca . In Cruce Culta a dirt road branches off to the north and after 38 kilometers reaches Ruta 6 , two kilometers north of the village of Macha . From Macha , an unpaved road leads north-east up the Río Jachcha Kallpa , crosses the river after eight kilometers, and after a total of twenty kilometers reaches Colquechaca, 600 meters higher .
Individual evidence
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992 ( Memento of the original of 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 (INE) 2001 ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2017 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.
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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 Uncia region 1: 250,000 (JPEG; 8.22 MB)
- Relief map of the Aiquile region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.35 MB)
- Municipio Colquechaca - General Maps No. 50401
- Municipio Colquechaca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 964 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )
