La Barranca
| La Barranca | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 421 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3006 m | ||
| Post Code | 01-0103-0400-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 59 ′ S , 65 ° 19 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Oropeza Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Sucre |
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La Barranca is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
La Barranca is the largest town in the canton of Sijcha in the municipality of Poroma in the province of Oropeza . The village is at an altitude of 3006 m on the northern edge of the plateau of the capital Sucre . The Quebrada Duraznomayu flows past La Barranca and flows over the Río Gallego and Río Huata Mayu to the Río Chico , a tributary of the Bolivian Río Grande .
geography
La Barranca 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
La Barranca is at a distance of twenty kilometers by road north of Sucre , the capital of the department.
The highway Ruta 5 runs through Sucre, which leads in a west-east direction from the Chilean border in the west via Sucre to the lowlands of Santa Cruz ; and Ruta 6 , which runs from the border with Paraguay via Sucre in a north-west direction to Machacamarca in the Oruro department .
The road from Sucre to Pojpo first follows Ruta 5 north from the city center, and then leaves Ruta 5 in Barrio Katalla Baja, leaving the airfield of the old Sucre airport "Juana Azurduy de Padilla" on the left, and reaches past the locality of Llimphi and finally La Barranca . From here the road continues north to Piocera in the canton of Pojpo .
population
The population of the village has increased significantly in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 320 | census |
| 2012 | 421 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Poroma 99.5 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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
- Relief map 6537-III of the Estancia Chanaca region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.52 MB)
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Poroma - General Maps No. 10103
- Municipio Poroma - detailed map and population data (PDF; 784 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )