Huañacahua
| Huañacahua | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1598 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2580 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-0902-0300-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 25 ′ S , 66 ° 21 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Quillacollo Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Cochabamba |
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Huañacahua is a village in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Huañacahua is the fifth largest town in the canton of Mallco Rancho in the district (Bolivian: Municipio ) Sipe Sipe in the province of Quillacollo . The village is located at the western end of the plain of Cochabamba at an altitude of 2580 m two kilometers northeast of the Río Viloma shortly before its confluence with the Río Rocha , the main source of the Bolivian Río Grande .
geography
Huañacahua lies between the Bolivian Cordillera Central and the Cordillera Oriental in the transition area to 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 and July and 20 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is about 450 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a rain maximum in January with 120 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Huañacahua is 22 kilometers by road west of Cochabamba , the capital of the department.
From Cochabamba the paved road Ruta 4 leads west over the town of Quillacollo towards Sipe Sipe . Six kilometers southwest of the city center of Quillacollo branches off the main road to the northwest, the Entrada Mallco Rancho , which reaches Huañacahua after a little more than one kilometer .
population
The population of the village has more than doubled in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 719 | census |
| 2012 | 1 598 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Sipe Sipe 83.9 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 December 25, 2015 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
- ↑ INE social data 2001 ( 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 file; 11.6 MB)
Web links
- Raised relief map of the Cochabamba region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.6 MB)
- Municipio Sipe Sipe - General Maps No. 30902
- Municipio Sipe Sipe - detailed map and population data (PDF; 440 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department of Cochabamba - Social data (PDF; 7.58 MB) ( Spanish )