Kora kora
Kora kora | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 513 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 2875 m | |
Post Code | 01-0101-0102-4001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 19 ° 5 ′ S , 65 ° 13 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Chuquisaca | |
province | Oropeza Province | |
climate | ||
![]() Climate diagram Sucre |
Kora Kora (also Khora Khora ) is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Kora Kora is the largest town in the canton of San Lazaro in the municipality of Sucre in the province of Oropeza . The village is located at an altitude of 2875 m in the source area of the Quebrada Azulajamayu, which flows to the Río Santiago and further into the Río Chico , a tributary of the Bolivian Río Grande .
geography
Kora Kora is located east of the Altiplano in the Bolivian 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 region is around 16 ° C (see climate diagram Sucre), 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.
Transport network
Kora Kora is eight kilometers by road southeast of Sucre , the capital of the department.
The 976 kilometer long highway Ruta 6 leads through Sucre, which leads from Oruro in the highlands via Sucre into the Bolivian lowlands to the border with Paraguay . The Ruta 6 leaves Sucre to the south on the Avenida del Ejercito, and after six kilometers a dirt road branches off in an easterly direction, which after two kilometers reaches Kora Kora .
population
The population of the village has changed only marginally in the past decade:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | no detailed data | census |
2001 | 508 | census |
2012 | 513 | census |
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.
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
- ↑ INE social data Chuquisaca 2001 (PDF; 4.4 MB)
Web links
- Raised relief map 6536-I of the Comunidad Arabate region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 3.01 MB)
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Sucre - General Maps No. 10101
- Municipio Sucre - detailed map and population data (PDF; 738 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )