El Salto (Tarvita)
| El Salto | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 384 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2268 m | ||
| Post Code | 01-0202-0100-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 51 ′ S , 64 ° 29 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Azurduy Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Azurduy |
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El Salto is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
location
El Salto is the third largest town in the canton of Tarvita in the municipality of Tarvita in the Azurduy province . The village is located at an altitude of 2268 m at the confluence of the Río El Salto in the Río Tarvita , which belongs to the river system of the Bolivian Río Grande .
geography
El Salto is located between the Altiplano in the west and the lowlands in the east in one of the north-south side valleys of the Bolivian Cordillera Central .
The climate of the region is a distinct daytime climate , in which the temperature differences between day and night fluctuate more clearly than the average values between summer and winter. The annual average temperature is 14 ° C (see Azurduy climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate between 10 ° C in June / July and 16 ° C in December / January. Annual precipitation is just under 550 mm, with a dry season and monthly values below 10 mm from May to August, and maximum values of 100 to 110 mm from December to February.
Transport network
El Salto is located at a distance of 273 kilometers by road southeast of Sucre , the capital of the department.
The 976 kilometer long highway Ruta 6 , which connects the capital with the Bolivian lowlands and the metropolis of Santa Cruz there , runs through Sucre . The road from Sucre to the east is paved only for the first 67 kilometers to Tarabuco , the following 120 kilometers to Padilla are covered with unpaved gravel. Fifteen kilometers before Padilla, a dirt road branches off to the south and leads via Alcalá and San Pedro via El Salto to Tarvita .
population
The population of the village has increased slightly in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 347 | census |
| 2012 | 384 | census |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 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 2001 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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 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.
Web links
- Relief map 6734-III of the Villa Orias region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.34 MB)
- Relief map of the Charagua region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 6.23 MB)
- Municipio Tarvita - detailed map and population data (PDF; 920 kB) (Spanish)
- Departamento Chuquisaca - Social data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 4.21 MB)