Culta
| Culta | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 604 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3932 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-1301-0700-5007 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 58 ′ S , 68 ° 2 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | San Pedro de Totora Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Huayllamarca |
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Culta is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Culta is a central place in the canton Culta (as of 2001) in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) San Pedro de Totora in the province of San Pedro de Totora . The place is located on the south bank of the Río Jakho Jahuira at an altitude of 3932 m west of the Serranía de Huayllamarca , an approximately 100 km long ridge that extends in the Bolivian highlands in a north-west-south-east direction.
geography
Culta lies between the Andean mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental in the west and the Cordillera Occidental in the east in the dry climate of the Altiplano .
The mean annual precipitation is about 330 mm and falls 80 percent in the months of December to March (see Huayllamarca climate diagram). The annual average temperature is almost 8 ° C, the monthly average values fluctuate between 4 ° C in June / July and around 10 ° C from November to March.
Transport network
Culta is located 160 kilometers west of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Oruro, the paved road Ruta 31 leads west via La Joya , Lajma , Chuquichambi and Huayllamarca to Totora and on to Curahuara de Carangas , where it meets Ruta 4 towards Chile . Five kilometers west of Totora, a dirt road branches off from Ruta 31 in a south-easterly direction and, past the village of Sora Sora , reaches the village of Culta after 34 kilometers .
population
The population of the place has experienced rapid growth in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 12 | census |
| 2001 | 292 | census |
| 2012 | 604 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of San Pedro de Totora 97.0 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 Oruro 2001 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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; 6.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Corocoro region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio San Pedro de Totora - General Maps No. 41301
- Municipio San Pedro de Totora - detailed map and population data (PDF; 367 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )