Huanchaca
| Huanchaca | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 30 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 4067 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-1201-0400-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 20 ° 19 ′ S , 66 ° 41 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Antonio Quijarro Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Uyuni |
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Huanchaca is a town in the Potosí department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The village of Huanchaca is the only village in the canton of Huanchaca in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Uyuni in the province of Antonio Quijarro . The place is located at an altitude of 4067 m on a tributary of the episodically flowing Río Capillas, which flows south of the city of Uyuni into the salt lake Salar de Uyuni .
geography
Huanchaca is located on the Bolivian Altiplano on the western slope of the Cordillera de Chichas . The arid climate of the region is a typical daytime climate , in which the temperature differences between day and night are more pronounced than between the seasons.
The annual average temperature of the region is 9 ° C (see climate diagram Uyuni), the monthly values fluctuate between 5 ° C in June / July and a good 11 ° C in the summer months from November to March. The annual precipitation barely reaches 150 mm, and while there is almost no precipitation for eight months, even the summer precipitation with monthly values between 20 and 50 mm is hardly sufficient for any significant plant growth.
Transport network
Huanchaca is 204 kilometers by road west of Potosí , the capital of the department.
From Potosí the highway Ruta 5 leads to the southwest via Porco , Chaquilla , Yura and Ticatica to Pulacayo and from there to Uyuni . In Pulacayo a dirt road branches off to the north, which reaches Huanchaca after 16 kilometers.
population
The population of the village continued to decrease between 1992 and 2012:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 74 | census |
| 2001 | 0 | census |
| 2012 | 30th | census |
Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Uyuni 43.4 percent of the population speak Quechua .
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 May 12, 2016 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 December 15, 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. (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Municipio Uyuni - detailed map and population data (PDF; 461 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Uyuni - General Maps No. 51201
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )