Canton of Coroma
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 Río Mulato train station |
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| Residents (state) | 5741 pop (2001) | ||
| height | 3900 m | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 38 ′ S , 66 ° 54 ′ W | ||
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| politics
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| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Antonio Quijarro Province | ||
| Municipio | Municipio of Uyuni | ||
| Central place | Coroma | ||
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 Climate diagram Pampa Aullagas |
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The canton Coroma is a municipality in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The Cantón Coroma is one of five cantons in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Uyuni in the province of Antonio Quijarro . It borders in the north and northwest on the Oruro department , in the west on the province of Nor Lípez , in the south on the canton Chacala , in the southeast on the municipality Tomave , and in the east on the province Tomás Frías .
The canton extends between approximately 19 ° 22 'and 20 ° 04' south latitude and 66 ° 17 'and 67 ° 15' west longitude. It measures up to 75 kilometers from north to south and up to 120 kilometers from west to east. In the northern part of the canton is the central place of the canton, Coroma , with 125 inhabitants. The mean altitude of the canton is 3900 m .
geography
The canton of Coroma is located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano between the Salar de Uyuni salt lake and the Cordillera Azanaques , which is part of the Cordillera Central mountain range . The climate is a typical time of day climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the fluctuations between the seasons.
The mean average temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C (see climate diagram Pampa Aullagas) and fluctuates between 4 ° C in June and July and 11 ° C in the summer months from November to March. Annual precipitation is less than 300 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to November with monthly precipitation below 15 mm, with a maximum of 75 mm in January.
population
The population in the canton is between the last two censuses risen by about a fifth:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 4,761 | census |
| 2001 | 5,741 | census |
| 2010 | . | no data yet |
The population density in the municipality of Uyuni was 2.4 inhabitants / km² at the last census in 2001, the life expectancy of newborns in the municipality was 62 years.
The literacy rate among the over 19-year-olds in the municipality of Uyuni is 84 percent, namely 94 percent for men and 76 percent for women (2001).
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Uyuni 43.4% of the population speak the Quechua language .
politics
In March 2012, border disputes escalated between Coroma and the neighboring municipality of Santuario de Quillacas in the Oruro department. In violent clashes between the two divided border communities there were 25 injured and two seriously injured, in Oruro the regional trade union federation COD and around 500 miners accused the government in La Paz of inactivity, and in the departmental capital Potosí Because of the protests there, all public life stood still for 24 hours. Autonomy Minister Claudia Peña declared the strike "political and unjustified". As early as the first weekend in March there was a written agreement between the two communities for a peaceful settlement of the conflict over arable land. The local pacification is above all the task of those affected, said Peña.
structure
The Cantón Coroma is subdivided into 41 sub-cantons ( vicecantones ) and has a total of 181 settlements ( localidades ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2001
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ INE social data (PDF; 5.5 MB)
- ↑ Bolivia: Dispute over arable land ( Memento of March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) March 10, 2012
Web links
- Municipio Uyuni - General Maps No. 51201
- Municipio Uyuni - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.79 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )