Lavadero (Yamparáez)

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Lavadero
Basic data
Residents (state) 205 pop. (2012 census)
height 3021  m
Post Code 01-0602-0101-2001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 19 ° 11 ′  S , 65 ° 3 ′  W Coordinates: 19 ° 11 ′  S , 65 ° 3 ′  W
Lavadero (Bolivia)
Lavadero
Lavadero
politics
Department Chuquisaca
province Yamparáez Province
climate
Climate diagram Tarabuco
Climate diagram Tarabuco

Lavadero (also Lavandero ) is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Lavadero is a village in the canton Yamparáez in Municipio Yamparáez in Yamparáez Province . The village is located at an altitude of 3021  m on the eastern edge of the Yamparáez plateau on the continental divide between the river systems of the Amazon and the Río de la Plata .

geography

Lavadero lies 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 of the region 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.

traffic

Lavadero is 38 kilometers south-east of Sucre , the capital of the department.

The 976 kilometer long highway Ruta 6 leads through Lavadero, which leads from Machacamarca in the Oruro department in a south-easterly direction via Llallagua to Sucre and on via Yamparáez , Lavadero , Tarabuco and Zudáñez into the Bolivian lowlands to the border with Paraguay .

At Lavadero a road branches off to the south-east from Route 6 and after a few kilometers follows the course of the Río Jatun Khakha to its confluence with the Río Pilcomayo near Sotomayor .

population

The population of the village has increased by almost half in the past decade:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 142 census
2012 205 census

Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Yamparáez 98.8 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
  4. ↑ INE social data Chuquisaca 2001 (PDF; 4.4 MB)

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