Lajas Sijlla
| Lajas Sijlla | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 625 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3257 m | ||
| Post Code | 01-0601-0101-7001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 9 ′ S , 64 ° 52 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Yamparáez Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Tarabuco |
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Lajas Sijlla (also Sijlla Sijlla ) is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Lajas Sijlla is the fourth largest town in the municipality of Tarabuco in the Yamparáez province . The village is located at an altitude of 3257 m on the Lajas Pampa, which is part of the continental divide between the river systems of the Amazon and the Río de la Plata .
geography
Lajas Sijlla is located between the Altiplano and the Bolivian lowlands in the ridge of the Bolivian Cordillera Central . The climate is a cool, moderate mountain climate with a typical time of day climate , in which the temperature differences fluctuate more strongly during the day than during the year.
The annual average temperature in Tarabuco is around 9 ° C (see Tarabuco climate diagram), the monthly averages fluctuate between 6 ° C in July and 11 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is 600 mm and has four arid months from May to August with monthly values below 10 mm, and a significant humidity period from December to February with monthly precipitation between 100 and 125 mm.
Transport network
Lajas Sijlla is 74 kilometers by road east of the departmental capital Sucre .
Lajas Sijlla is located on the 976 kilometers long national road Ruta 6 , which connects Sucre with the Gran Chaco in the Bolivian lowlands. The route 6 begins in the west at Machacamarca in the Oruro department and leads via Llallagua to Sucre . From there it continues in an easterly direction via Yamparáez and Tarabuco to Lajas Sijlla and further via Zudáñez , Monteagudo and Boyuibe to the border with Paraguay .
population
The city's population has decreased slightly over the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 652 | census |
| 2012 | 625 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Tarabuco 98.6 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 ( 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 Chuquisaca 2001 (PDF; 4.4 MB)
Web links
- Relief map 6636-IIV of the Estancia Cororo region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.91 MB)
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Tarabuco - General Maps No. 10601
- Municipio Tarabuco - detailed map and population data (PDF; 394 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )