Iscayachi
| Iscayachi | |||
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 Street scene in Iscayachi |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 730 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3432 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0502-0700-7001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 29 ′ S , 64 ° 58 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | Province of Eustaquio Méndez | ||
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 Climate diagram Yunchará |
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Iscayachi is a town in the Tarija Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Iscayachi is the central place of the canton Iscayachi in the municipality of El Puente in the province of Eustaquio Méndez . The village is located at an altitude of 3432 m in the Cordillera de Sama Biological Reserve, east of the north-south ridge of the Cordillera de Sama .
geography
Iscayachi is located in the southeastern part of the barren plateau of the Bolivian Altiplano . The climate is cool and dry because of the inland location and is characterized by a typical daytime climate, in which the mean temperature fluctuations between day and night are usually significantly greater than the seasonal fluctuations.
The annual average temperature is 11 ° C (see Yunchará climate diagram) and fluctuates only slightly between a good 6 ° C in June / July and a good 14 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is just under 400 mm, with a strongly pronounced dry season from April to October with monthly precipitation below 15 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with 80–95 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Iscayachi is located sixty kilometers west of Tarija , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Tarija the highway Ruta 1 leads north, pierces the Cordillera de Sama in a north-westerly direction and continues via the village of San Lorencito to Camargo , Padcoyo and Potosí . In San Lorencito, a dirt road branches off in a southerly direction and reaches Iscayachi after a further eleven kilometers. From there, the road continues to the south, passing through Pampa de Tajzara with the salt lakes Laguna Tajzara and Laguna Grande , and then turning south of the Laguna Grande to the west, reaching over Yunchará the Ruta 14 , of Villazón at the Argentine border to the provincial capital Tupiza and further to Potosí.
population
The population of the village has increased by almost half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 501 | census |
| 2001 | 621 | census |
| 2012 | 730 | census |
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 7, 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 6629-IV of the Iscayachi region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.29 MB)
- Relief map of the Tarija region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.07 MB)
- Municipio El Puente - General Maps No. 60502
- Municipio El Puente - detailed map and population data (PDF; 466 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Tarija - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )