Canton of Chicaloma
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| Residents (state) | 1889 pop (2012) | ||
| Post Code | 02-1102-05 | ||
| height | 1800 m | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 28 ′ S , 67 ° 32 ′ W | ||
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| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | South Yungas Province | ||
| Municipio | Municipio Irupana | ||
| Central place | Chicaloma | ||
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 Climate diagram Chulumani |
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The canton of Chicaloma is an administrative district in the Bolivian department of La Paz .
Location in the vicinity
The canton of Chicaloma is one of six cantons of the Municipio Irupana in the Sud Yungas province and is located in the southern part of the province. It borders in the north on the municipality Chulumani , in the northwest on the municipality Yanacachi , in the west on the canton Lambate , in the south on the canton Taca , in the east on the canton Irupana and in the northeast on the canton Laza .
The canton has 15 localities (localidades) , the central place of the canton is Chicaloma with 768 inhabitants (2012 census).
geography
The canton of Chicaloma is located in the Bolivian Yungas on the eastern slope of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Real .
The mean average temperature of the region is 19 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 1150 millimeters. The region has a distinct daytime climate, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 17 ° C in July and 21 ° C in December. The monthly precipitation is between about 20 millimeters in the months of June and July and more than 150 millimeters from December to February.
population
The population of the canton in the census of 2012 was 1,889 inhabitants.
Due to the historical development, a large proportion of Afro-Bolivians live in the canton of Chicaloma, whose ancestors were abducted by the Spanish colonizers to work in the silver and tin mines on the Altiplano . With the decline in the yield in the mines, they were then relocated to the Yungas in the 20th century.
structure
In the 2012 census, the canton was divided into fifteen sub-cantons ( vicecantones ):
- 02-1102-0500-1 Chicaloma sub-canton - 768 inhabitants
- 02-1102-0500-2 Collpamaya sub-canton - 29 inhabitants
- 02-1102-0500-3 Subcanton Villa Trinidad - 123 inhabitants
- 02-1102-0500-4 sub-canton Huariscollo - 189 inhabitants
- 02-1102-0500-5 sub-canton Maticuni - 176 inhabitants
- 02-1102-0500-7 sub-canton Tambillo Tocoroni Grande - 91 inhabitants
- 02-1102-0500-8 sub-canton Bajo Tocoroni - 50 inhabitants
- 02-1102-0501-3 Subcanton Huayruro - 81 inhabitants
- 02-1102-0502-2 Chuila sub-canton - 44 inhabitants
- 02-1102-0503-7 Subcanton Yoloza - 89 inhabitants
- 02-1102-0570-2 Subcanton Uquina - 69 inhabitants
- 02-1102-0570-6 Subcanton Imanacu - 50 inhabitants
- 02-1102-0570-9 Subcanton Churumata - 0 inhabitants
- 02-1102-0571-0 Subcanton La Joya - 97 inhabitants
- 02-1102-0591-9 Subcanton Imicasi - 33 inhabitants
Web links
- Chicaloma, un pueblo africano en el corazón de Sudamérica (Spanish)
- A Search to Understand Afro-Bolivian Identity (English)
- Race, ethnicity, and political mobilization in the Andes (English)
- Harvest aid in the field of the vice minister
- Relief map of the Chulumani region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 13.7 MB)
- Relief map of the Irupana region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 3.8 MB)
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.3 MB)
- Municipio Irupana - General Maps No. 21102
- Municipio Irupana - detailed map and population data (PDF; 687 kB) (Spanish)
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) (Spanish)
Individual evidence