Huachacalla
| Huachacalla | |||
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 Huachacalla Church |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1003 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3749 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0501-0100-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 48 ′ S , 68 ° 16 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Litoral Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Huachacalla |
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Huachacalla is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Huachacalla is the only place in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Huachacalla and the administrative seat of the Litoral Province and is located on the Bolivian Altiplano on the Río Sabaya. Huachacalla lies at an altitude of 3,749 m above sea level on the eastern slope of a mountain range made up of two Quaternary stratovolcanoes , the Pacha Kkollu Quimsa Misa (4702 m) in the northwest and the Inca Camacho (4792 m) in the southeast.
geography
The climate is semi-arid and has a short rainy season in summer, the annual precipitation is low 200 mm. The annual average temperature is 5.5 ° C without significant fluctuations in the course of the year, but with strong daily fluctuations in temperature and frequent changes in frost .
The vegetation in the Huachacalla area corresponds to the semi-arid puna . It is treeless and mainly consists of thorn bushes , grasses , succulents and cushion plants . It is used economically as a llama , alpaca and sheep pasture .
Transport network
Huachacalla is 161 kilometers by road southwest of Oruro , the capital of the department.
From Oruro the dirt road Ruta 12 leads via Toledo and Ancaravi to Huachacalla and on via Pisiga on the Chilean border to Colchane in Chile . A few kilometers east of the city, the Ruta 12 crosses the Río Sabaya, which flows twenty kilometers further south into the Salar de Coipasa .
population
The population of the village has been subject to significant fluctuations over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 983 | census |
| 2001 | 1,650 | census |
| 2012 | 1 003 | census |
The city has around 200 houses and infrastructure facilities, a school, a hospital, a Catholic church and a barracks. In addition, the "Escuela de Auxiliares de Enfermería Jesús María" trains young women and men from poor families to become health promoters.
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 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 - 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 of the Nevado Sajama region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.0 MB)
- Municipio Huachacalla - General Maps No. 40501
- Municipio Huachacalla - detailed map and population data (PDF; 161 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )
- Carola Dörrie, Soil and Vegetation in the Huachacalla Area (PDF; 22.9 MB)