La Rivera
| La Rivera | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 189 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3842 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-1501-0100-3008 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 0 ′ S , 68 ° 38 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Puerto de Mejillones province | ||
La Rivera is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
La Rivera is the administrative seat of the province of Puerto de Mejillones and the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) La Rivera . La Rivera is located at the mouth of Rìo Mocomocone in the headwaters of the Río Sabaya at the foot of a hundred-meter-high round the mountain , 40 kilometers northwest of the salt lake Salar de Coipasa .
geography
The climate in the region is semi-arid and has a wet season in summer, the annual precipitation is 400–500 mm. The annual average temperature is 8 ° C without significant fluctuations in the course of the year, but with strong daily fluctuations in temperature and frequent changes in frost .
The vegetation in the region corresponds to the semi-arid puna . It is treeless and mainly consists of thorn bushes , grasses , succulents and cushion plants . It is used economically as a llama , alpaca and sheep pasture .
Transport network
La Rivera is 221 kilometers by road from Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Oruro, the largely unpaved road Ruta 12 leads 189 kilometers in a south-westerly direction via Ancaravi and Huachacalla to Sabaya and on to Pisiga on the Chilean border. In Sabaya, a dirt road branches off to the west and leads a further 32 kilometers along the Río Sabaya to La Rivera and from there to Carangas .
population
The population of the village has almost doubled over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 106 | census |
| 2001 | 200 | census |
| 2012 | 189 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of La Rivera 62.3 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carola Dörrie, Soil and Vegetation in the Huachacalla Area (PDF; 22.9 MB)
- ^ 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 (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Salinas de Garci-Mendoza region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.44 MB)
- Municipio La Rivera - General Maps No. 41501
- Municipio La Rivera - detailed map and population data (PDF; 249 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )