Cotagaita
| Cotagaita | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic data | |||
| Full name | Santiago de Cotagaita | ||
| Residents (state) | 3931 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 111 | ||
| height | 2640 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0601-0101-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 20 ° 49 ′ S , 65 ° 40 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Nor Chichas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Cotagaita |
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Cotagaita (also: Santiago de Cotagaita ) is a country town in the Potosí department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia . The village was founded in 1570.
Location in the vicinity
Cotagaita is the central place of the Municipio Cotagaita and capital of the Nor Chichas province . Cotagaita is located at an altitude of 2640 m on the Río Cotagaita , a tributary of the Río Pilcomayo .
geography
Cotagaita is located in the southern part of the barren plateau of the Bolivian Altiplano . The climate is cool and dry because of the inland location and is characterized by a typical daytime climate, in which the temperature fluctuations between day and night are usually significantly greater than the seasonal fluctuations.
The annual average temperature is 15 ° C (see climate diagram Cotagaita) and fluctuates only slightly between 11 ° C in June / July and 18 ° C in December and January. The annual precipitation is only about 300 mm, with a strongly pronounced dry season from April to October with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with 70–80 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Cotagaita is 240 kilometers by road south of Potosí , the capital of the department.
From Potosí, the paved national road Ruta 1 , which leads from Lake Titicaca in a south-easterly direction to the Argentine border, leads over 37 kilometers to Cuchu Ingenio . From there, Ruta 7 branches off in a southerly direction and reaches Cotogaita via Vitichi and Tumusla after 203 kilometers .
The city of Tupiza is located about 83 kilometers by road . There are no paved traffic routes in the east-west direction.
population
The population of the village has increased by almost half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 401 | census |
| 2001 | 1 645 | census |
| 2012 | 3931 | census |
The population of the region is above all the indigenous people of Quechua on, 96.1 percent of residents in the municipality of Cotagaita speak the Quechua language.
Natural disasters
On February 6, 2020, catastrophic flooding caused by the river of the same name as a result of heavy rainfall in the region. Several hundred houses were destroyed and around a third of the population was affected by the damage.
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 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.
- ^ [1] El Deber, February 7, 2020
Web links
- Municipio Cotagaita - General Maps No. 50601
- Municipio Cotagaita - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.54 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )