Llauquinquiri
| Llauquinquiri | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1202 pop. (2001 census) | ||
| height | 2596 m | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) 4 | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 22 ′ S , 66 ° 15 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Quillacollo Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Cochabamba |
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Llauquinquiri (also: Llauquenquiri or Laukinkiri ) was an independent town in the Cochabamba department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Llauquinquiri is located in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Quillacollo in the province of the same name Quillacollo at an altitude of 2596 m on the southern edge of the Cochabamba Cordillera in the Cochabamba basin. With the 2012 census it is no longer listed as an independent town, but as part of the city of El Paso .
geography
Llauquinquiri lies in the transition area between the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central and the Bolivian lowlands.
The mean average temperature of the region is around 18 ° C (see climate diagram Cochabamba) and fluctuates only slightly between 14 ° C in June / July and 20 ° C in October / November. The annual precipitation is only around 450 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with 90 to 120 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Llauquinquiri is 14 kilometers by road from Cochabamba , the capital of the department, and 5 km north of Quillacollo , the administrative center of the province.
The 1,657-kilometer Ruta 4 highway runs through Cochabamba and Quillacollo and begins in the far west on the Chilean border at Tambo Quemado . It leads across the country via Quillacollo , Cochabamba and Villa Tunari to Santa Cruz and ends in the southeastern part of the country on the border with Brazil at the city of Puerto Quijarro . Eleven kilometers west of Cochabamba, one kilometer west of Colcapirhua , a road branches off from Ruta 4 to the north in the direction of the city of El Paso and after three kilometers reaches Llauquinquiri .
population
The population of the village increased several times over in the decade between the penultimate two censuses:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 255 | census |
| 2001 | 1 202 | census |
Due to the historical distribution of the population, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population. In the municipality of Quillacollo, 55.8 percent of the population still speak the Quechua language - despite the urban transformation .
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ INE social data Cochabamba 2001 (PDF; 8.0 MB)
Web links
- Raised relief map of the Cochabamba region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.6 MB)
- Municipio Quillacollo - General Maps No. 30901
- Municipio Quillacollo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 434 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Cochabamba - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 7.58 MB) ( Spanish )