Camacho Canton

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Camacho Canton
Basic data

Residents (state) 1835 pop (2001)
Telephone code (+591)
height 2500  m
Coordinates 21 ° 55 ′  S , 64 ° 56 ′  W Coordinates: 21 ° 55 ′  S , 64 ° 56 ′  W
Camacho Canton (Bolivia)
Camacho Canton
Camacho Canton
politics

Department Tarija
province Province of Aniceto Arce
Municipio Municipio Padcaya
Central place Camacho
climate
Climate diagram Padcaya
Climate diagram Padcaya

The canton Camacho is a municipality in the department of Tarija in the South American Andean state of Bolivia ; however, since 2009 the cantons in Bolivia are no longer listed as an official administrative unit.

location

The canton ( Bolivian : Cantón) Camacho is one of twelve cantons in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Padcaya in the province of Aniceto Arce . It borders the Municipio Uriondo to the north and the Municipio Yunchará to the west , both of which belong to the province of José María Avilés . In the south it borders on the Canton of Rejara , in the southeast and east on the Canton of Cañas , and in the northeast on the Canton of Tacuara .

The canton lies between 21 ° 51 'and 21 ° 59' southern latitude and 64 ° 51 'and 65 ° 02' western longitude. Its maximum extent in east-west and north-south direction is almost twenty kilometers each.

The Cantón Camacho includes ten localities, the central place of the canton is Camacho with 189 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) in the northeastern part of the district. The mean height of the canton is 2500  m , in the chain of the Cordillera de Sama , which borders the canton to the west , heights of up to over 4,500 m are reached.

geography

The canton of Camacho is located on the eastern edge of the Andean chains of Bolivia between the Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian Chaco lowlands in the east. The region's climate is semi-humid and exhibits a time-of-day climate in which the mean daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the temperature fluctuations over the course of the year.

The mean mean temperature of the region is 13.5 ° C (see Padcaya climate diagram), the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate between 9 ° C in June and July and 17 ° C in December and January. The annual precipitation is 630 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with monthly precipitation well over 100 mm.

population

The population in the canton has increased over the past two decades:

  • 1992 : 1,526 inhabitants ( 1992 census )
  • 2001 : 1,835 inhabitants (census)
  • 2010 : More recent data for the canton are not yet available, the update for the Municipio Padcaya assumes a population increase of around ten percent for the period from 2001 to 2010

The population density of the Municipio Padcaya at the 2001 census was 4.2 inhabitants / km², the life expectancy of newborns was 65.5 years, the literacy rate for those over 19 was 74 percent, namely 85 percent for men and 62 percent for Women ( 2001 ).

The region has only a small proportion of indigenous population, in the Municipio Padcaya 2.8% of the population speak the Quechua language .

structure

The Cantón Camacho is divided into the following four sub-cantons ( Bolivian : vicecantones):

  • Vicecantón Comunidad Camacho - 633 inhabitants - 5 villages - central place: Camacho ( 2001 census )
  • Vicecantón Comunidad Canchas Mayu - 429 inhabitants - 3 villages - central place: Canchas Mayu
  • Vicecantón Comunidad La Huerta - 434 inhabitants - 1 village: La Huerta
  • Vicecantón Queñahuayco - 339 inhabitants - 1 town: Queñahuayco

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE 1992)
  2. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE 2001)
  3. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística - Proyecciones (PDF; 1.59 MB)
  4. ↑ INE social data Department Tarija (PDF; 3.2 MB)

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