Keluyo
| Keluyo | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 500 inhabitants (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3427 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-1103-0206-8001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 51 ′ S , 65 ° 11 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | José María Linares Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram San Lucas |
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Keluyo is a town in the Potosí Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Keluyo is the third largest town in the canton of Esquiri in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Puna in the province of José María Linares . The village is located at an altitude of 3427 m in an inaccessible mountain region west of the Río Pilcomayo , which belongs to the catchment area of the Río Paraguay .
geography
Keluyo is located on the southwestern foothills of the Bolivian Cordillera Central , between the Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian lowlands in the east. The climate is a cool, moderate mountain climate with a typical time of day climate , in which the temperature differences fluctuate more strongly during the day than during the year.
The annual average temperature in the district is around 15 ° C (see climate diagram San Lucas), the monthly averages fluctuate between almost 12 ° C in June / July and 17 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is 430 mm and shows seven arid months from April to October with monthly values below 20 mm, noteworthy monthly precipitation falls only from December to February with values of 80–90 mm each.
Transport network
Keluyo is located 93 kilometers by road southeast of Potosí , the capital of the department.
The 898-kilometer Ruta 5 highway runs through Potosí and leads from the Cordillera Oriental across the Altiplano to the Chilean border. From Potosí, the road runs 31 kilometers east to Betanzos and on to Yotala and Sucre . From Betanzos after 12 kilometers on the western edge of the Pampa de Lekesana , a dirt road branches off to the south, which reaches Keluyo after 50 kilometers via the village of Calapaya and continues to San Lucas .
population
The population of the village has decreased by about a fifth in the decade between the last two registered censuses . Data from the 2012 census are not yet available:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 390 | census |
| 2001 | 321 | census |
| 2012 | 500 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Puna 99 percent of the population speak the Quechua 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 Potosí 2001 (PDF; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Puna - General Maps No. 51101
- Municipio Puna - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.11 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )