Huatina
Huatina | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 175 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 2960 m | |
Post Code | 05-1101-0306-3001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 19 ° 45 ′ S , 65 ° 25 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Potosí | |
province | José María Linares Province | |
climate | ||
![]() Climate diagram Betanzos |
Huatina is a town in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Huatina is the sixth largest town in the Miculpaya canton in the Puna municipality in the José María Linares province . The village is at an altitude of 2960 m between the confluence of the Río Panuta and the Río Sucachavi in the Río Miculpaya.
geography
Huatina is located at the southern end of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central . The climate of the region is a typical daytime climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuation between day and night is more pronounced than between summer and winter.
The annual average temperature in 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
Huatina is located 63 kilometers by road southeast of Potosí , the capital of the department.
From Potosí, the Ruta 5 road leads east to Betanzos and on to the capital Sucre . Ten kilometers after Betanzos, directly after crossing the Río Khoña Paya, a country road branches off in a southerly direction and leads downstream via El Palomar to Huatina and on to Miculpaya .
population
The population of the village has decreased slightly over the past decade:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | no detailed data | census |
2001 | 208 | census |
2012 | 175 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Puna 98.3 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 20, 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 2001 ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2011 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. (PDF; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Raised relief map of the Miculpaya region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 1.82 MB)
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Puna - General Maps No. 51101
- Municipio Puna - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.11 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )