Las Carreras
| Las Carreras | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 765 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2327 m | ||
| Post Code | 01-0903-0100-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 12 ′ S , 65 ° 13 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Sud Cinti Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Las Carreras |
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Las Carreras is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Las Carreras is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Las Carreras in the province of Sud Cinti . The village is located at an altitude of 2327 m at the confluence of the Río la Torre in the Río San Juan del Oro , which joins and from here near Villa Abecia (Camataqui) with the Río Grande de Cinti coming from the north Río Camblaya , later called Río Pilaya and finally flows into the Río Pilcomayo . The north-south running mountain ranges to the left and right of the Río San Juan del Oro reach heights of up to 3000 m at Las Carreras. Six kilometers south of Las Carreras is the town of El Puente on the right bank of the Río San Juan del Oro, which belongs to the Tarija department , where a small cement factory has been located since the 1980s.
geography
Las Carreras is located in the southern part of the Bolivian Altiplano on the northeast edge of the Cordillera de Lípez . The climate is semi-arid , the pronounced dry season lasts for more than half of the year.
The mean average temperature of the region is around 18 ° C (see climate diagram Las Carreras) and fluctuates over the course of the year between almost 14 ° C in June / July and 21 ° C in January. The annual precipitation is hardly more than 400 mm, whereby the monthly precipitation in the dry season is less than 20 mm and only in the southern winter reaches values of almost 100 mm.
Transport network
Las Carreras is 417 kilometers south of Sucre , the capital of the department, and 111 kilometers northwest of Tarija , the capital of the neighboring department.
The 1,215-kilometer Ruta 1 highway runs through Las Carreras and leads from the Peruvian border on Lake Titicaca in the north via El Alto , Oruro , Potosí , Camargo , Las Carreras and Tarija to Bermejo on the Argentine border in the south.
On the section from Sucre to Camargo, the road is paved up to 20 kilometers north of Camargo, as is the entire route from Camargo via Villa Abecia - Las Carreras - El Puente to the tunnel, about 25 kilometers before Tarija.
Just south of Las Carreras , the highway begins Ruta 20 , the west front at at Impora leads and on a pass of 4300 the m Cordillera de Mochara overcome before after 81 kilometers near the village of Hornillos on the Ruta 14 meets that of Tupiza leads towards Potosí .
population
The population of the village has almost doubled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 422 | census |
| 2001 | 600 | census |
| 2012 | 765 | census |
Due to the historical population development, a significant proportion of indigenous population still lives in the region ; in the municipality of Las Carreras, 15.4 percent of the inhabitants speak Quechua .
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 6530-II of the Las Carreras region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.39 MB)
- Relief map of the Tarija region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.07 MB)
- Municipio Las Carreras - General Maps No. 10903
- Municipio Las Carreras - detailed map and population data (PDF; 331 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )