Irupata
| Irupata | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 409 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3841 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0202-0104-0001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 24 ′ S , 66 ° 24 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Rafael Bustillo Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Uncía |
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Irupata is a town in the Potosí Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Irupata is the central place of the canton Irupata in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Chayanta in the province of Rafael Bustillo . Irupata lies at an altitude of 3841 m in one of the high valleys of the Cordillera Azanaques , the mountain ridge directly east of the village rises to over 4000 m. The place is located on the Río Phusari , a right tributary of the Río Chayanta , which flows further downstream as Río San Pedro into the Río Grande .
geography
Irupata is located east of the Bolivian Altiplano in the northern section of the Cordillera Central . The vegetation is that of the puna , the climate is a typical time of day climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the seasonal fluctuations.
The mean annual temperature of the region is 9 ° C, the monthly averages fluctuate between just under 5 ° C in June / July and 11 ° C from November to March (see climate diagram Uncía). The annual precipitation is 370 mm and falls mainly in the summer months, the arid period with monthly values of a maximum of 10 mm lasts from April to October.
Transport network
Irupata is located at a distance of 141 kilometers by road southeast of Oruro , the capital of the neighboring Oruro department .
From Oruro, the paved road Ruta 1 leads south 22 kilometers via Vinto to Machacamarquita , eight kilometers north of Machacamarca . In Machacamarquita, the route 6 branches off in a south-easterly direction and reaches the city of Llallagua after 79 kilometers via Huanuni and over pass heights of more than 4,500 m . From there the Ruta 6 leads another seven kilometers to the provincial capital Uncía . Here a dirt road branches off to the east, reaches Chayanta after seventeen kilometers and continues in a north-easterly direction via Irupata to Colloma .
population
The population of the village has increased by about a fifth in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 334 | census |
| 2001 | 298 | census |
| 2012 | 409 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Chayanta 95.5 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 dated November 8, 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 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 ( Memento of the original from December 15, 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. (PDF; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Uncia region 1: 250,000 (JPG; 8.3 MB)
- Municipio Chayanta - General Maps No. 50202 ( Spanish )
- Municipio Chayanta - detailed map and population data (PDF; 479 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )
