Corma

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Corma
Basic data
Residents (state) 204 pop. (2012 census)
height 3226  m
Post Code 01-0702-0800-8001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 20 ° 14 ′  S , 65 ° 3 ′  W Coordinates: 20 ° 14 ′  S , 65 ° 3 ′  W
Corma (Bolivia)
Corma
Corma
politics
Department Chuquisaca
province Nor Cinti Province
climate
Climate diagram San Lucas
Climate diagram San Lucas

Corma is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

Corma is the eleventh largest town in the canton of Ocurí in the municipality of San Lucas in the province of Nor Cinti . The village is located at an altitude of 3226  m on the Río Corma , which becomes the Río Malliri downstream .

geography

Corma is located on the southwestern foothills of the Bolivian Cordillera Central , between the Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian lowlands in the east. The climate is a cool, moderate mountain climate with a typical time of day climate , in which the mean temperature differences fluctuate more strongly during the day than during the year.

The annual average temperature in the district is around 15 ° C (see climate diagram San Lucas), the monthly averages fluctuate between almost 12 ° C in June / July and 17 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is 430 mm and has seven arid months from April to October with monthly values ​​below 20 mm, notable monthly precipitation only falls from December to February with values ​​of 80 to 90 mm each.

Transport network

Corma is 311 kilometers by road south of Sucre , the capital of the department.

The 898-kilometer Ruta 5 highway runs through Sucre and leads from the Cordillera Oriental across the Altiplano to the Chilean border. From Sucre, the road leads 169 kilometers in a south-westerly direction to Potosí , where it meets the north-south running Ruta 1 . From there it is another 122 kilometers on Ruta 1 to Padcoyo . From there, an unpaved road leads eastwards via Ocurí to Palacio Tambo . In Ocurí, a country road branches off in a southerly direction and continues via Corma and Khollpa Khasa to Malliri and Chiñimayu .

population

The population of the village has decreased slightly over the past decade:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 222 census
2012 204 census

Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of San Lucas 98.6 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.

Individual evidence

  1. Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo
  2. INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo
  3. 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. INE social data Chuquisaca 2001 ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 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; 4.4 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo

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