Colquiri
| Colquiri | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 5935 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 75 | ||
| height | 4316 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1004-0100-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 24 ′ S , 67 ° 8 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Inquisivi Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Colquiri |
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Colquiri is a small town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Colquiri is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Colquiri in the province of Inquisivi . The village is located at an altitude of 4303 m between the mountain valleys of the southern Serranía de Sicasica near the lake Laguna Bornuni .
geography
Colquiri is located between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands in the east. The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.
The annual average temperature in the Colquiri region is 7 ° C (see Colquiri climate diagram), the average monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 3 ° C in June and July and 9 ° C from November to February. The annual precipitation is 500 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the dry season from May to August and 100 to 120 mm in January and February.
In the tin deposits of Colquiri u. a. found the rare colquiriite , a fluoride mineral that occurs in association with zinc blende and pyrite .
Transport network
Colquiri is located at a distance of 226 kilometers by road southeast of La Paz , the capital of the department.
The paved road Ruta 1 leads past La Paz, which leads from Lake Titicaca in a south-easterly direction via Caracollo and the departmental capitals Oruro , Potosí and Tarija to Bermejo on the Argentine border. Colquiri is connected to Ruta 1 via the unpaved road Ruta 44 , which runs 42 kilometers in a south-westerly direction from Colquiri to Caracollo .
population
Due to the production figures of tin mining in the region, the population of the small town of Colquiri has been subject to strong fluctuations in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 5 696 | census |
| 2001 | 4 004 | census |
| 2012 | 5,935 | census |
The population of the region is above all the indigenous people of the Aymara on, 82.9 percent of the inhabitants of the municipality colquiri speak Aymara .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mineralogy and Petrology Journal, December 1980
- ↑ 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 December 15, 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 2012 ( 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.
Web links
- Relief map of the Oruro-Cochabamba region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.6 MB)
- Municipio Colquiri - General Maps No. 21004
- Municipio Colquiri - detailed map and population data (PDF; 588 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )