Kora kora

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Kora kora
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 Coordinates: 19 ° 5 ′  S , 65 ° 13 ′  W
Kora Kora (Bolivia)
Kora kora
Kora kora
politics
Department Chuquisaca
province Oropeza Province
climate
Climate diagram Sucre
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
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

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
  4. ↑ INE social data Chuquisaca 2001 (PDF; 4.4 MB)

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