Lapachal Alto
| Lapachal Alto | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1039 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 652 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0301-0103-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | +591 | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 58 ′ S , 63 ° 39 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | Gran Chaco Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Yacuiba |
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Lapachal Alto is a town in the Tarija Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia . The name refers to an occurrence of the Lapacho tree.
Location in the vicinity
Lapachal Alto is the fourth largest town in the canton of Yacuiba in the municipality of Yacuiba in the Gran Chaco Province . The village is located at an altitude of 652 m four kilometers north of the Bolivian- Argentine border. Eight kilometers west of the village runs the mountain range of Serranía Aguaragüe in north-south direction , which here reaches heights of more than 1200 m.
geography
Lapachal Alto is located on the southeastern edge of the Bolivian Andes chain in the lowlands of the subtropical Gran Chaco , which extends over northwest Paraguay , northeast Argentina and southeast Bolivia. The climate is subtropical with hot humid summers and moderately warm and dry winters.
The annual average temperature is almost 22 ° C, the average monthly values fluctuate between 15 ° C in June / July and 26 ° C in January (see Yacuiba climate diagram). Annual precipitation is just under 1100 mm, with a four-month dry season from June to September with monthly precipitation below 15 mm and a humidity period from December to March with 160–200 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Lapachal Alto is located 267 kilometers southeast of Tarija , the capital of the department, directly at Yacuiba Airport .
To get to Tarija, follow the national road Ruta 9 from Lapachal Alto, which runs beyond the airfield, to the village of Campo Pajoso, eight kilometers to the north . There the Ruta 29 branches off to the northwest and after 83 kilometers via Caraparí reaches the village of Palos Blancos . The road meets Ruta 11 here , which , coming from the border with Paraguay , heads west via Villamontes and Palos Blancos to Tarija, where it meets Ruta 1 eight kilometers before Tarija . Via this route 1 , Yacuiba is then connected to the large metropolises of the highlands, with Potosí , Oruro , El Alto and La Paz .
If you follow the Ruta 9 further north via Campo Pajoso , the entire Bolivian lowland opens up on this highway, because the Ruta 9 leads via the departmental capitals Santa Cruz and Trinidad to Guayaramerín on the border with Brazil in the extreme northeast of the country.
population
The population of the village has increased many times over in the past decade alone:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | no data |
| 2001 | 94 | census |
| 2012 | 1 039 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a certain proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Yacuiba 17.6 percent of the population speak Quechua .
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 Tarija 2001 (PDF; 3.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map 6828-II of the El Palmar region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 1.56 MB)
- Relief map of the Villamontes region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.68 MB)
- Municipio Yacuiba - General Maps No. 60301
- Municipio Yacuiba - detailed map and population data (PDF; 407 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Tarija - social data of the provinces and municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )