Huantapita
| Huantapita | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 344 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3228 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0301-0102-0001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 24 ′ S , 65 ° 23 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Province of Cornelio Saavedra | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Betanzos |
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Huantapita is a town in the Potosí Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Huantapita is a village in the canton of Potobamba in the municipality of Betanzos in the province of Cornelio Saavedra . The place is located at an altitude of 3228 m at the confluence of the Río Huantapita and the Río Khullku Mayu, which bear the name Río Torre Mayu downstream, which flows to the Río Pilcomayo .
geography
Huantapita lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The climate of the region is a typical time of day climate , in which the temperature fluctuations during the day are greater than during the year.
The annual average temperature in the valleys of the region is around 17 ° C (see Betanzo's climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 14 ° C in June / July and 19 ° C from November to January. The annual rainfall is almost 500 mm, the months May to September are arid with monthly values below 15 mm, only in January a rainfall of 100 mm is reached.
Transport network
Huantapita is located sixty kilometers by road east of Potosí , the capital of the department.
The supraregional highway Ruta 5 leads through Potosí, which leads from the Chilean border in an easterly direction via Uyuni and Pulacayo to Potosí and on via Betanzos and Sucre to La Palizada in the lowlands, where it meets the north-south running Ruta 7 .
Two and a half kilometers east of the Betanzos exit, a dirt road branches off in a south-easterly direction from Ruta 5 towards the village of Quivincha. After a further two kilometers, a side road leads from this road to the northeast, which reaches the Laguna Lagunillas after eight kilometers. From there it is another sixteen kilometers in a northerly direction, on which the road in the meantime rises to 3750 meters, until finally Huantapita is reached.
population
The population of the village has decreased slightly over the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 351 | census |
| 2012 | 344 | census |
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 February 15, 2017 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 Ticoya region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.86 MB)
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Betanzos - General Maps No. 50301
- Municipio Betanzos - detailed map and population data (PDF; 735 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )