Independencia (Ayopaya)
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 Town Hall in Independencia |
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| Basic data | |||
| Full name | Villa de Independencia | ||
| Residents (state) | 1751 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2633 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-0301-0100-9008 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) 0104 | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 5 ′ S , 66 ° 49 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Ayopaya Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Independencia |
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Independencia (also: Ayopaya ) is a country town in the Cochabamba department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Independencia is the seat of the administration of the province of Ayopaya and is located in the municipality of Ayopaya between the Río Ayopaya and Río Negro . The village is located at an altitude of 2633 m on the left bank of the Río Khuti Barranca , which flows below the village in a north-easterly direction and flows into the Río Negro after twelve kilometers .
geography
Independencia lies between the Cordillera Mazo Cruz and the Cordillera del Tunari , a north-western section of the Cordillera Oriental . The climate is a typical daytime climate , in which the temperature fluctuations between day and night are more pronounced than between the seasons.
The annual average temperature of the region is just under 15 ° C (see climate diagram Independencia) and fluctuates over the course of the year between 11 ° C in June / July and 17 ° C in November / December. The annual precipitation is around 750 mm, with a dry season from May to August with monthly precipitation below 20 mm contrasted with a pronounced humidity period , in which the monthly values clearly exceed 100 mm from December to March.
Transport network
Independencia is 164 kilometers by road northwest of Cochabamba , the capital of the department.
The unpaved national road Ruta 25 leads through Independencia, which leads in a northwest-southeast direction from La Paz via Chulumani to Independencia and on to Cochabamba .
population
The population of the village has increased by more than three quarters in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 1 592 | census |
| 2001 | 2,014 | census |
| 2012 | 1 751 | census |
The majority of the local population belongs to the Quechua indigenous people , in the Municipio Ayopaya 97.9 percent of the population 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 March 4, 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
- Topographic map of the Independencia region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.5 MB)
- Relief map of the Oruro-Cochabamba region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.6 MB)
- Municipio Ayopaya - General Maps No. 30301
- Municipio Ayopaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 635 kB)
- Departamento Cochabamba - Social data of the municipalities ( Spanish ) (PDF; 7.58 MB)