Canton Villa Esperanza
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| Residents (state) | 2327 pop (2012) | ||
| Post Code | 04-0801-08 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| height | 3750 m | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 29 ′ S , 67 ° 21 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Ladislao Cabrera Province | ||
| Municipio | Municipio Salinas de Garcí Mendoza | ||
| Central place | Villa Esperanza Quinsuyo | ||
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 Climate diagram Salinas de Garcí Mendoza |
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The canton of Villa Esperanza is a municipality in the Oruro department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The canton ( Bolivian : Cantón) Villa Esperanza is one of eight cantons of the Municipio Salinas de Garcí Mendoza in the province of Ladislao Cabrera . It borders in the north with the canton Aroma , in the east with the canton Ichalula in the municipality Pampa Aullagas , in the south with the canton Caroma in the province Antonio Quijarro in the department Potosí , and in the west and northwest with the canton Salinas de Garcí Mendoza .
The canton extends between about 19 ° 19 'and 19 ° 41' south latitude and 67 ° 10 'and 67 ° 30' west longitude, it measures up to 35 km from north to south and up to 30 km from west to east. In the eastern part of the canton is the central town of the canton, Villa Esperanza Quinsuyo , with 117 inhabitants ( 2012 census ). The mean altitude of the canton is 3750 m .
geography
The Canton Villa Esperanza is located on the western edge of the Bolivian Altiplano between the Poopó Lake and the salt lake Salar de Coipasa .
The climate is arid , the annual precipitation is just under 200 mm (see climate diagram Salinas de Garcí Mendoza), with a pronounced dry season from April to November with only sporadic precipitation; only in the summer from December to March there is significant rainfall between 20 and 70 mm per month. The mean average temperature of the region is around 4.5 ° C and fluctuates only slightly between 0 ° C in July and 7 ° C in January.
population
The population of the canton of Villa Esperanza has increased by around half over the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 1 522 | census |
| 2012 | 2,327 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Salinas de Garcí Mendoza 85.3 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 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 2001 (PDF; 6.2 MB)
Web links
- Aspectos Históricos y Socioculturales Marka Villa Esperanza June 2016 ( Spanish )
- Relief map of the Tambo Tabillo region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 1.02 MB)
- Relief map of the Estancia Tusqui region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 1.17 MB)
- Relief map of the Pampa Aullagas region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 783 kB)
- Municipio Salinas de Garcí Mendoza - General Maps No. 40801
- Municipio Salinas de Garcí Mendoza - detailed map and population data (PDF; 806 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )