Llallagua
| Llallagua | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 View of Llallagua |
|||
| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 25,166 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 29 | ||
| height | 3895 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0203-0100-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 25 ′ S , 66 ° 35 ′ W | ||
|
|||
| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Rafael Bustillo Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Uncía |
|||
Llallagua ( Quechua : "Llallawa") is a small town in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The city of Llallagua is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Llallagua in the province of Rafael Bustillo and is located at an altitude of 3895 m six kilometers north of the provincial capital Uncía and three hundred kilometers south of the Bolivian seat of government La Paz .
geography
Llallagua lies at the transition from the Oruro highlands to the Potosí mountains. The city is bordered in the north and west by the high mountain ranges of the Cordillera Central . The vegetation is that of the puna , the climate a typical time of day climate , in which the daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the monthly fluctuations.
The mean annual average temperature is 9 ° C, the monthly averages vary between just under 5 ° C in June / July and 11 ° C from November to March (see climate diagram Uncía). The annual precipitation is 370 mm and falls mainly in the summer months, the arid period with monthly values of a maximum of 10 mm lasts from April to October.
Transport network
Llallagua is located 101 kilometers by road southeast of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Oruro, the asphalt national road Ruta 1 leads south 22 kilometers via Vinto to Machacamarquita , eight kilometers north of Machacamarca . In Machacamarquita, the route 6 branches off in a south-easterly direction and reaches the city of Llallagua after 79 kilometers via Huanuni and over pass heights of more than 4,500 m. From there the route 6 leads a further 98 kilometers via Uncía to Macha . In Macha a dirt road branches off in a south-westerly direction and after 33 kilometers leads back to Ruta 1 at Ventilla . From here to the department capital Potosí there is another 109 kilometers.
economy
The tin mines near Llallagua were among the largest and richest ore deposits in the world, here the tin baron Simón I. Patiño founded his world empire, and the largest mine in Latin America was located here. After the collapse of the tin market in the 1980s, the Bolivian mines were re- privatized and many were gradually closed, including here in Llallagua and the neighboring town of Siglo XX . Today in Siglo XX many live Mineros , which on their own or in small cooperatives work or in old mines in appalling safety conditions, the huge slag heaps browse for Zinnresten.
population
The city's population has been declining since tin production began to decline, having declined by about a quarter over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 23 361 | census |
| 1992 | 23 305 | census |
| 2001 | 20 065 | census |
| 2012 | 25 166 | census |
Life expectancy in the municipality of Llallagua is 58.2 years, the literacy rate for those over 15 is 83 percent.
literature
- Eduardo Galeano : The Century of the Storm (= third volume of the trilogy Memory of Fire ). Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1988; therein the paragraph 1967, Llallagua , pp. 238-239.
- Victor Montoya : The Legend of Tio , Mackinger Verlag, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Brinkhoff: City Population
- ^ 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 March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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
- Blogspot Llallagua ( Spanish )
- Relief map of the Uncia region 1: 250,000 (JPG; 8.3 MB)
- Municipio Llallagua - General Maps No. 50203
- Municipio Llallagua - detailed map and population data (PDF; 420 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )
