Impora
| Impora | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 159 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2602 m | ||
| Post Code | 01-0903-0301-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 22 ′ S , 65 ° 17 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Sud Cinti Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Las Carreras |
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Impora is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Impora is the central place of the canton Impora in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Las Carreras in the province of Sud Cinti . Impora is located at an altitude of 2602 m in a basin on the Río Papa Chajra , which flows eight kilometers east of Impora near Socpora into the Río San Juan del Oro . Directly west of Impora rises at an altitude of 2,700 m, an extension of the Cordillera de Mochara ridge , which rises in its central areas to 4,500 m.
geography
Impora is located in the southern part of the Bolivian Altiplano on the northeast edge of the Cordillera de Lípez . The climate is semi-arid , the pronounced dry season lasts for more than half of the year.
The mean average temperature of the region is around 18 ° C (see climate diagram Las Carreras) and fluctuates over the course of the year between almost 14 ° C in June / July and 21 ° C in January. The annual precipitation is hardly more than 400 mm, whereby the monthly precipitation in the dry season is less than 20 mm and only in the southern winter reaches values of almost 100 mm.
Transport network
Impora is 435 kilometers south of Sucre , the capital of the department, and 85 kilometers northwest of Tarija , the capital of the neighboring department.
The 81 kilometer long unpaved highway Ruta 20 runs through Impora, which leads from Las Carreras on Ruta 1 in the east to Hornillos on Ruta 14 in the west.
The Ruta 1 crosses the entire Bolivian high mountain region from north to south and leads from the Peruvian border on Lake Titicaca via El Alto , Oruro , Potosí , Camargo , Las Carreras and Tarija to Bermejo on the Argentine border in the south.
The Ruta 14 branches off the south of the city Potosí at Cuchu Ingenio of the Ruta 1 and runs further to the west parallel to this, it performs about Cotagaita , Hornillos and Tupiza according Villazón on the Argentine border and opens up the southwest of the Departamento Potosí .
population
The population of Impora has doubled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 84 | census |
| 2001 | 186 | census |
| 2012 | 159 | census |
Due to the historical population development, a significant proportion of indigenous population still lives in the region ; in the municipality of Las Carreras, 15.4 percent of the inhabitants 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 January 13, 2016 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 Tarija region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.07 MB)
- Municipio Las Carreras - General Maps No. 10903
- Municipio Las Carreras - detailed map and population data (PDF; 331 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - Social data of the municipalities ( Spanish ) (PDF; 4.21 MB)