Cororo

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Cororo
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 Coordinates: 19 ° 4 ′  S , 64 ° 54 ′  W
Cororo (Bolivia)
Cororo
Cororo
politics
Department Chuquisaca
province Yamparáez Province
climate
Climate diagram Tarabuco
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
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

  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 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.  @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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