Cororo
Cororo | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 738 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 2862 m | |
Post Code | 01-0601-0103-9001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 19 ° 4 ′ S , 64 ° 54 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Chuquisaca | |
province | Yamparáez Province | |
climate | ||
![]() Climate diagram Tarabuco |
Cororo is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Cororo is the third largest town in the Municipio Tarabuco in the Yamparáez Province . The village is located at an altitude of 2862 m at the confluence of the Río Sunchu Pampa in the Río Vila Vila.
geography
Cororo lies between the Altiplano and the Bolivian lowlands in the ridge of the Bolivian Cordillera Central . The climate is a cool, moderate mountain climate with a typical time of day climate , in which the temperature differences fluctuate more strongly during the day than during the year.
The annual average temperature in Tarabuco is around 9 ° C (see Tarabuco climate diagram), the monthly averages fluctuate between 6 ° C in July and 11 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is 600 mm and has four arid months from May to August with monthly values below 10 mm, and a significant humidity period from December to February with monthly precipitation between 100 and 125 mm.
Transport network
Cororo is located 83 kilometers by road east of Sucre , the capital of the department.
The national road Ruta 6 leads through Sucre, which begins at Machacamarca on the north-south main route Ruta 1 , and which leads past Sucre and Tarabuco into the Gran Chaco in the Bolivian lowlands and ends at the border with Paraguay .
On the northeastern edge of Tarabuco, a country road branches off in a northerly direction, which leads past Vila Vila to Cororo and on to the country town of Presto .
population
The population of the village has increased significantly in the past decade:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | no detailed data | census |
2001 | 543 | census |
2012 | 738 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Tarabuco 98.6 percent of the population speak Quechua .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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 - 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 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)
Web links
- Relief map 6636-IV of the Estancia Cororo region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.91 MB)
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Tarabuco - General Maps No. 10601
- Municipio Tarabuco - detailed map and population data (PDF; 394 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )