Cutusuma (Chulumani)

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Cutusuma
Basic data
Residents (state) 416 pop. (2012 census)
height 1701  m
Post Code 02-1101-0500-3001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 16 ° 27 ′  S , 67 ° 30 ′  W Coordinates: 16 ° 27 ′  S , 67 ° 30 ′  W
Cutusuma (Bolivia)
Cutusuma
Cutusuma
politics
Department La Paz
province South Yungas Province
climate
Climate diagram Chulumani
Climate diagram Chulumani

Cutusuma is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Cutusuma is the central place of the canton Villa Asunta (also: Canton Cutusuma ) in the municipality Chulumani in the province Sud Yungas . The village is located at an altitude of 1701  m fifteen kilometers northwest of the Río Boopi , a source river of the Río Beni .

geography

Cutusuma is located in the Bolivian Yungas on the eastern slope of the high mountain ridge of the Cordillera Real . The region has a pronounced time-of-day climate, in which the mean temperature fluctuation over the course of the day is more pronounced than over the course of the seasons.

The annual average temperature of the region is 21 ° C (see climate diagram Chulumani), the average monthly values ​​fluctuate only slightly between 18 ° C in July and 22 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is about 1150 mm, the monthly precipitation is between about 20 mm in the months of June and July and more than 150 mm from December to February.

Transport network

Cutusuma is located 151 kilometers by road east of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz, the asphalted national road Ruta 3 leads in a north-easterly direction for 60 kilometers to Unduavi , from there the unpaved Ruta 25 branches off in a south-easterly direction and after 69 kilometers it reaches Chulumani . From there a country road leads thirteen kilometers to the village of Ocobaya and after another nine kilometers reaches Cutusuma .

population

The population of the village has more than quadrupled in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 93 census
2001 331 census
2012 416 census

Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population , in the municipality of Chulumani 49.9 percent of the population speak Aymara .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo
  2. INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2014 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@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo
  3. 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@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. 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) ( 2001 )  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo