El Villar
| El Villar | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 979 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2097 m | ||
| Post Code | 01-0405-0100-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 38 ′ S , 64 ° 19 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Tomina Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Padilla |
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El Villar is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
El Villar is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) El Villar in the province of Tomina . The village is located in the northern part of the municipality at an altitude of 2097 m on the right bank of the Río El Villar , which flows here in a southeastern direction and flows into the Río Kharachi Mayu , which reaches the Río Grande via the Río Azero .
The north-south running mountain ridges in the vicinity of El Villar reach heights of up to over 2400 meters.
geography
El Villar is located at the transition from the Altiplano bounded by the Cordillera Central to the Bolivian lowlands of the Gran Chaco . The climate is semi-humid and a typical daytime climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations between day and night are more pronounced than those between the seasons.
The annual average temperature of the region is around 18 ° C, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between just under 15 ° C in June and July and 20 ° C from November to January. Annual precipitation is around 600 mm (see Padilla climate diagram), monthly precipitation is between less than 10 mm from May to August and over 100 mm from December to February.
Transport network
El Villar is located at a distance of 217 kilometers by road southeast of Sucre , the capital of the department.
The 976 kilometer long highway Ruta 6 runs through Sucre, which connects Sucre with the Bolivian lowlands and the local metropolis of Santa Cruz . The road from Sucre to Padilla 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 after ten kilometers reaches Alcalá and after another 40 kilometers El Villar .
population
The population of the village has more than doubled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 401 | census |
| 2001 | 486 | census |
| 2012 | 979 | census |
Some municipalities in the Tomina province have a very high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of El Villar 32.0 percent of the population speak the Quechua 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 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.
- ↑ 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)
Web links
- Relief map of the Charagua region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 6.23 MB)
- Municipio El Villar - General Maps No. 10405
- Municipio El Villar - detailed map and population data (PDF; 465 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )