Canton of Cahuana
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| Residents (state) | 208 pop (2001) | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| height | 3800 m | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 4 ′ S , 68 ° 28 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Sabaya Province | ||
| Municipio | Municipio Sabaya | ||
| Central place | Cahuana | ||
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 Climate diagram Sabaya |
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The canton of Cahuana is a municipality in the Oruro department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The canton ( Bolivian : Cantón) Cahuana is one of seventeen cantons of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Sabaya in the province of Sabaya . It borders in the north with the canton Pacariza , in the north-west with the canton Cruz de Huayllas , in the west with the canton San Antonio de Pitacollo , in the south-west with the canton Pagador , in the south with the canton Villa Vitalina , in the south-east with the canton Villa Rosario , and in the northeast to the canton of Sabaya .
The canton stretches between about 19 ° 00 'and 19 ° 09' south latitude and 68 ° 24 'and 68 ° 32' west longitude, it measures up to 16 kilometers from north to south and up to 13 kilometers from west to east. In the western part of the canton is the central place of the canton, Cahuana , with 85 inhabitants ( 2001 census ), in the northern part the largest town of the canton, Agua Rica with 115 inhabitants. The mean altitude of the canton is 3800 m .
The canton is framed by three mountain peaks that rise more than a thousand meters from the plain: the Tata Sabaya (5385 m) in the southwest, the Cerro Pariani (5077 m) in the southeast, and the Cerro Pumiri (4805 m) in the northeast near the Sabaya locality .
geography
The canton Cahuana located a few kilometers north of the salt lake Salar de Coipasa on the western edge of the Bolivian Altiplano and west through the foothills of the Cordillera Occidental limited to south through the summit of Tata Sabaya and Munduyo .
The climate of the region is semi-arid , the annual precipitation is only 200 mm (see climate diagram Sabaya). From April to November there is a dry season with monthly values of less than 10 mm of precipitation, the wet season in summer is short and the rain is not very productive. The annual average temperature is almost 7 ° C without significant fluctuations in the course of the year, but with strong daily fluctuations in temperature and frequent changes in frost .
The vegetation in the region corresponds to the semi-arid puna . It is treeless and mainly consists of thorn bushes , grasses , succulents and cushion plants . It is used economically as a llama , alpaca and sheep pasture .
population
The number of inhabitants in the canton has quadrupled between the last two censuses:
- 1992 : 51 inhabitants ( census )
- 2001 : 208 inhabitants (census)
- 2010 : More recent data are not yet available, in the municipality of Sabaya the population doubled between 2001 and 2010
The population density of the Municipio Sabaya at the 2001 census was 1.3 inhabitants / km², the life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 54.9 years.
The literacy rate among those over 19 is 94 percent, 98 percent for men and 89 percent for women (2001).
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Sabaya 62.9% of the population speak the Aymara language .
structure
The canton of Cahuana comprises the following four localities ( localidades ):
- Agua Rica - 115 inhabitants ( 2001 )
- Cahuana - 85 inhabitants
- Estancia Carpa Huano - 8 residents
- Estancia Tambo - 0 inhabitants
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)
- ↑ Carola Dörrie, Soil and Vegetation in the Huachacalla Area (PDF file; 21.84 MB)
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE 1992)
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE 2001)
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística - Proyecciones (PDF; 1.04 MB)
- ↑ INE social data (PDF file; 5.87 MB)
Web links
- Municipio Sabaya - Politics, Population and Economy ( Spanish )
- Municipio Sabaya - General Maps No. 40901
- Municipio Sabaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 807 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )