Chaunaca Canton
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| Basic data
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| Residents (state) | 666 pop (2001) | ||
| height | 3300 m | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 58 ′ S , 65 ° 26 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Oropeza Province | ||
| Municipio | Municipio Sucre | ||
| Central place | Chaunaca | ||
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 Climate diagram Sucre |
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The canton Chaunaca is an administrative district in the department Chuquisaca in the South American Andean state Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The canton of Chaunaca is one of thirteen cantons of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Sucre in the province of Oropeza and is located in the northwestern part of the district. It borders in the northwest on the Potosí department , in the west on the canton Potolo , in the south on the canton Maragua , in the east on the canton Mamahuasi , and in the northeast on the municipality Poroma .
The canton extends between 18 ° 55 'and 19 ° 00' south latitude and 65 ° 23 'and 65 ° 29' west latitude, it measures up to ten kilometers from north to south and from west to east. The canton consists of seventeen localities ( localidades ), the central place is Chaunaca with 188 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the southwestern part of the canton.
geography
Chaunaca is east of the Bolivian Altiplano on the western edge of the Cordillera Central . The climate is a moderate altitude climate and a typical time of day climate , in which the average temperature fluctuation is greater during the day than during the year.
The annual average temperature in the valleys of the region is around 16 ° C (see Sucre climate diagram), the monthly averages fluctuate between 14 ° C in June / July and 17 ° C in October / November. The annual precipitation is about 700 mm and has five arid months from May to September with monthly values below 25 mm, and a significant humidity period from December to February with monthly precipitation between 125 and 150 mm.
population
The population of the canton has remained constant in the decade between the last two censuses :
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 665 | census |
| 2001 | 666 | census |
| 2012 | . | no data yet |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Sucre 61.6 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
structure
The canton of Chaunaca is divided into the following five sub-cantons ( vicecantones ):
- Comunidad Chaunaca - 6 localities - 117 inhabitants ( 2001 )
- Comunidad Chufles - 1 village - 120 inhabitants
- Comunidad Tumpeka - 7 villages - 311 inhabitants
- Comunidad Chaunaca Alta - 1 village - 67 inhabitants
- Comunidad Chaunaca Baja - 2 villages - 51 inhabitants
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ INE social data Chuquisaca 2001 (PDF file; 4.2 MB)
Web links
- Municipio Sucre - General Maps No. 10101
- Municipio Sucre - detailed map and population data
- Departamento Chuquisaca - Social data of the municipalities ( Spanish ) (PDF; 4.21 MB)