Canton of Quila Quila
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| Residents (state) | 1754 pop (2001) | ||
| height | 3200 m | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 7 ′ S , 65 ° 24 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Oropeza Province | ||
| Municipio | Municipio Sucre | ||
| Central place | Tajchi | ||
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 Climate diagram Sucre |
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The canton Quila Quila (also: Tajchi ) is an administrative district in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The canton of Quila Quila is one of thirteen cantons of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Sucre in the province of Oropeza and is located in the southwestern part of the district. It borders in the north on the canton of Maragua , in the south-west on the Department of Potosí , in the south-east on the municipality of Yotala , and in the east on the canton of San Sebastian .
The canton extends between 19 ° 04 'and 19 ° 10' southern latitude and 65 ° 20 'and 65 ° 28' 30 "western latitude, it measures up to ten kilometers from north to south and up to fifteen kilometers from west to east The canton consists of seven localities ( localidades ), the central place is Tajchi with 673 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the central part of the canton.
geography
The canton of Quila Quila is located 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 canton's valleys 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 is in the decade between the last two censuses increased by about forty percent:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 1,216 | census |
| 2001 | 1,754 | 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 Quila Quila is divided into the following seven sub-cantons ( vicecantones ), each of which consists of only one village:
- Comunidad Chullchuta - 118 inhabitants ( 2001 )
- Comunidad Lecopaya - 144 inhabitants
- Comunidad Picachulo - 356 inhabitants
- Comunidad Purunquilla - 382 inhabitants
- Comunidad Sisipuco - 96 inhabitants
- Comunidad Tajchi - 492 inhabitants
- Comunidad Talula - 166 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; 4.4 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)