Huatina

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Huatina
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 Coordinates: 19 ° 45 ′  S , 65 ° 25 ′  W
Huatina (Bolivia)
Huatina
Huatina
politics
Department Potosí
province José María Linares Province
climate
Climate diagram Betanzos
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
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

  1. 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo
  2. 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo
  3. 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. 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)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo

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