Saucarí Canton
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| Residents (state) | 730 pop (2012) | ||
| Post Code | 04-1001-08 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| height | 3800 m | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 11 ′ S , 67 ° 37 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Saucarí Province | ||
| Municipio | Municipio Toledo | ||
| Central place | Alto Saucarí | ||
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 Oruro climate diagram |
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The canton Saucarí is a municipality in the Oruro department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The canton (Bolivian: cantón ) Saucarí is one of eleven cantons of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Toledo in the province of Saucarí . It is bordered to the north, west and south by the province of Carangas , in the southeast on the canton Collpahuma , on the east by the canton of Toledo , and in the northeast on the canton Challavito .
The canton comprises sixteen localities, the central place of the canton is Alto Saucarí with 211 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the southern part of the district. The mean altitude of the canton is 3800 m .
geography
The canton Saucarí is located in the eastern part of the Bolivian Altiplano between the Serranía de Huayllamarca in the west and the Cordillera Azanaques in the east, which in turn is part of the Bolivian Andean mountain range of the Cordillera Central .
Because of its location on the equator, the climate is typical of the time of day and, because of its altitude, it is semi-arid, cool and dry. The mean average temperature of the region is around 10 ° C (see Oruro climate diagram), the monthly averages fluctuate only slightly between 6 ° C in June / July and just under 14 ° C in November / December. The annual precipitation is only 400 mm, with a clear dry season from May to August with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a short humidity period from December to March with 60-85 mm monthly precipitation.
population
The number of inhabitants in the canton has increased eightfold in the last two decades:
- 1992 : 94 inhabitants ( 1992 census )
- 2001 : 460 inhabitants (census)
- 2012 : 730 inhabitants (census)
The population density of the Municipio Toledo at the 2012 census was 3.4 inhabitants / km², the life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 60.4 years.
The literacy rate among the over 19-year-olds in the municipality is 78 percent, namely 93 percent for men and 64 percent for women. ( 2001 )
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Toledo 69.2% of the population speak the Aymara language .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE 1992)
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE 2001)
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE social data (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Detailed maps of the municipality of Toledo (map no. 41001)
- Social data in the Oruro Department (Spanish) (PDF file; 11.63 MB)