La Compañía (Tarija)
| La Compañía | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 639 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 1746 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0401-0301-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 42 ′ S , 64 ° 41 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | José María Avilés Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Tarija |
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La Compañía is a town in the Tarija Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
La Compañía is the largest town in the canton of Chocloca in the municipality of Uriondo in the province of José María Avilés . The village is located at an altitude of 1746 m on the left, northern bank of the Río Camacho , which flows further below the town of Valle de Concepción (Uriondo) and flows into the Río Tarija .
geography
La Compañía is located in southern Bolivia on the eastern slopes of the eastern Andes mountain range at the transition to the Bolivian lowlands.
The mean average temperature of the region is 19 ° C (see climate diagram Tarija), the monthly average temperatures fluctuate between 14 ° C in June and July and 22 ° C in December to March. The annual precipitation is about 550 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to October with monthly precipitation between 0 and 30 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with monthly precipitation of about 120 mm.
Transport network
La Compañía is 28 kilometers by road south of Tarija , the capital of the department.
From Tarija, the paved road Ruta 1 leads southeast towards Padcaya and Bermejo . After seventeen kilometers from the main road, an asphalt country road branches off to the west, after five kilometers it crosses the valley of the Río Nuevo Guadalquivir and after three kilometers you reach the village of Valle de Concepción. From there a dirt road leads in a south-westerly direction to Chocloca and reaches the village of La Compañía three kilometers southwest of Valle de Concepción .
population
The population of the village has increased significantly in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 349 | census |
| 2012 | 639 | census |
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.
Web links
- Relief map 6628-I of the Uriondo region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.79 MB)
- Relief map of the Tarija region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.07 MB)
- Municipio Uriondo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 325 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Uriondo - General Maps No. 60401
- Departamento Tarija - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )