Culpina
Culpina | ||
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View of the Salar de Culpina |
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 2608 pop. (2012 census) | |
rank | Rank 137 | |
height | 2959 m | |
Post Code | 01-0902-0101-1001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 20 ° 50 ′ S , 64 ° 57 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Chuquisaca | |
province | Sud Cinti Province | |
climate | ||
Culpina climate diagram |
Culpina is a country town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Culpina is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Culpina in the province of Sud Cinti and is located at an altitude of 2959 m in the basin of Culpina, a drainless basin with the salt lake Salar de Culpina in the southwestern part. The basin of Culpina is bounded to the east and south by the valleys of the Río Pilaya , to the west by the Río Tumusla in the long valley of Camargo .
geography
The Culpina basin is located in the semi-arid transition area between the semi-humid mountain forests of the eastern mountain ranges of Bolivia and the arid Altiplano .
The annual rainfall varies between 350 and 550 mm and occurs mainly in the months from November to March; the winter months from May to August are largely free of precipitation (see Culpina climate diagram). The monthly average temperatures in the basin are between almost 20 ° C in December and 5 to 8 ° C in June / July.
population
The population of the village has increased by around two thirds in the past two decades:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | 1,727 | census |
2001 | 2 103 | census |
2012 | 2 608 | census |
economy
The small-parcel cultivation in the basin of Culpina takes up the entire large alluvial fan of the Río Culpina, which drains from the northwestern mountain range to the Salar de Culpina. The cultivated area used extends over an area of around 5 km × 15 km.
The valley of Culpina produces more than 80 percent of the Bolivian onion variety Cebolla rosada .
Water supply
The city's drinking water supply and the irrigation of the agricultural areas are secured by a dam two kilometers to the northeast above the city, which was completed in 1998 with funds from the German development bank KfW . It has a length of 2,500 m and a maximum width of 500 m and has a dam height of 40 m.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aerial view of surface form and land use in the Andean basin of Culpina, southern Bolivia. Dr. Gerhard Gerold (1981)
- ↑ 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 November 12, 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ex Libro Lapidum Historia Mundi
Web links
- Relief map of Bolivia from 1: 2,000 GeoBolivia
- Relief map of the Culpina region 1: 50,000 Instituto Geográfico Militar Bolivia ( accessed April 13, 2017 )
- Municipio Culpina - General Maps No. 10902
- Municipio Culpina - detailed map and population data (PDF; 746 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - Social data (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )