Cosapa
| Cosapa | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 264 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3913 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0402-0200-3010 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 11 ′ S , 68 ° 43 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Sajama Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Tambo Quemado |
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Cosapa is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Cosapa is the central place of the canton Cosapa , one of three cantons in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Turco in the province of Sajama . Cosapa is located on the western edge of the Oruro department at an altitude of 3913 m, forty kilometers from the Chilean border, on the right bank of the Río Cosapa . Twenty kilometers northwest of Cosapa is the Sajama , at 6,542 m the highest mountain in Bolivia.
geography
Cosapa is located on the Bolivian Altiplano on the eastern slopes of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Occidental . The region has a typical daytime climate in which the mean fluctuation in daytime temperatures is greater than the mean seasonal fluctuations.
The mean average temperature of the region is around 5 ° C, the annual precipitation is only around 200 mm (see climate diagram Tambo Quemado). The monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 1 ° C in June / July and a good 6 ° C from November to March. The monthly precipitation is below 10 mm from April to October and reaches its maximum in the months of December to March.
Transport network
Cosapa is located at a distance of 231 kilometers by road west of Oruro , the capital of the department.
On the border with Chile, 38 kilometers west of Cosapa, is the border town of Tambo Quemado . From there, the 1,657 km long leads highway Ruta 4 to the east and passes 29 km away Cosapa , which is reached by a nine kilometer long street, the Ruta 27 , which further Turco and Ancaravi leads. The first section of Ruta 4 leads from Tambo Quemado over 376 kilometers to Cochabamba , from there another 473 kilometers further west to the metropolis of Santa Cruz , and the last section over about 800 kilometers leads from there in a south-easterly direction to Puerto Busch im The border triangle of Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay .
population
The population of the village has not changed significantly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 274 | census |
| 2001 | 381 | census |
| 2012 | 264 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the province of Sajama 90.4 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 dated February 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 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 ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 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. (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Nevado Sajama region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.0 MB)
- Municipio Turco - detailed map and population data (PDF; 671 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Turco - General Maps No. 40402
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )