El Paso (Cochabamba)
| El Paso | |||
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 Santiago Apóstol Church in El Paso |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 5964 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 74 | ||
| height | 2647 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-0901-0200-7001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) 4 | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 20 ′ S , 66 ° 16 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Quillacollo Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Cochabamba |
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El Paso is a small town in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
El Paso is the central place of the canton El Paso in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Quillacollo in the province of the same name Quillacollo . The city is located at an altitude of 2647 m on the eastern bank of the Río Liriuni , which flows from the slopes of the Cordillera of Cochabamba into the basin of Cochabamba and formerly formed a two kilometer long lake directly west of El Paso, which was due to the population pressure in the Cochabamba valley has since been drained.
geography
El Paso lies in the transition area between the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central and the Bolivian lowlands.
The mean average temperature of the region is around 18 ° C (see climate diagram Cochabamba) and fluctuates only slightly between 14 ° C in June / July and 20 ° C in October / November. The annual precipitation is only around 450 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with 90 to 120 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
El Paso is located 21 kilometers west of Cochabamba , the capital of the department, and eight kilometers north of Quillacollo , the administrative center of the province.
The 1,657-kilometer Ruta 4 highway runs through Cochabamba and Quillacollo and begins in the far west on the Chilean border at Tambo Quemado . It leads across the country via Quillacollo , Cochabamba and Villa Tunari to Santa Cruz and ends in the southeastern part of the country on the border with Brazil at the city of Puerto Quijarro .
In Quillacollo a country road leads north towards the town of Ironcollo , crosses the Río Liriuni to the east and leads along the left bank of the river via Pandoja to El Paso .
population
The population of the village has more than tripled in the past two decades - also due to incorporations:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 763 | census |
| 2001 | 3 344 | census |
| 2012 | 5,964 | census |
Due to the historical distribution of the population, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population. In the municipality of Quillacollo, 55.8 percent of the population still speak the Quechua language - despite the urban transformation .
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 February 1, 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.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( 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.
- ↑ INE social data Cochabamba 2001 ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2010 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; 8.0 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Cochabamba region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.6 MB)
- Municipio Quillacollo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 434 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Quillacollo - General Maps No. 30901
- Department of Cochabamba - Social data (PDF; 7.58 MB) ( Spanish )