Culpina

Culpina
	; View of the Salar de Culpina
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 Coordinates: 20 ° 50 ′ S , 64 ° 57 ′ W
	Culpina
	Culpina
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
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.