Icla
| Icla | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 505 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2373 m | ||
| Post Code | 01-0304-0101-7001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 22 ′ S , 64 ° 48 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Jaime Zudáñez Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Icla |
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Icla is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
location
Icla is the central place of the Municipio Icla in the province of Jaime Zudáñez . The village is located at an altitude of 2373 m at the confluence of the Río Jatun Mayu in the Río Icla , 16 km before this flows into the Río Pilcomayo , which belongs to the river system of the Río Paraná and the Río de la Plata .
geography
Icla is located in the southern part of the Cordillera Central mountain range in the transition area to the Bolivian lowlands. The region has a typical daytime climate in which the temperature fluctuations during the day are greater than the average temperature fluctuations over the year.
The mean average temperature of Icla is around 18 ° C (see climate diagram Icla), it is a mild 15 ° C in June and July and reaches around 20 ° C from October to March. The annual precipitation is almost 600 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to August with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with 100 to 120 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Icla is located at a distance of 100 kilometers by road southeast of Sucre , the capital of Bolivia and the department.
From Sucre the 976 kilometer long highway Ruta 6 leads east , which connects Sucre with the Bolivian lowlands and the metropolis Santa Cruz there , and reaches the city of Tarabuco after 67 kilometers. From Tarabuco a high road then leads south to the town of Icla .
population
The population of the village has more than doubled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 199 | census |
| 2001 | 417 | census |
| 2012 | 505 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Icla 98.6 percent of the population speak the Quechua language. The life expectancy of the newborns in the municipality was 56.0 years, the infant mortality increased slightly from 9.2 percent (1992) to 9.7 percent in 2001.
tourism
The " Cañón de Icla ", which begins directly south of the village and is traversed by the Río Icla, is a popular tourist destination. It has a length of about 6 km and cuts up to more than 200 m into the plateau.
Another attraction in the region are recently discovered dinosaur tracks, which, according to the Reuters news agency, are 140 million years old and are the oldest so far discovered footprints of this species in Bolivia. According to the Argentine paleontologist Sebastian Apesteguia, the traces can be assigned to three different types of dinosaur, including an ankylosaurus , of which there have not been any footprints that go back as long in the entire southern hemisphere.
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 September 24, 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.
- ^ "Bolivian farmer leads to dinosaur discovery". Reuters Nov 8, 2008
Web links
- Relief map 6635-IV of the Icla region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.99 MB)
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Icla - General Maps No. 10304
- Municipio Icla - detailed map and population data (PDF; 698 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - Social data (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )
- El Cañon de Icla