Macha (Potosí)
| Macha | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1135 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3524 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0401-0202-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 49 ′ S , 66 ° 2 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Chayanta Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Pocoata |
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Macha is a town in the Potosí Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Macha is the central place of the canton Macha in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Colquechaca in the province of Chayanta . The village is located at an altitude of 3524 m on a river called Río Grande , which upstream carries the name Río Jachcha Kallpa , and downstream over the Río Tres Mojones , the Río Chayanta and the Río San Pedro into the Bolivian Río Grande . The place is framed by mountain ridges that rise to more than 3,700 m.
geography
Macha is located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano , between the Cordillera Azanaques in the west and the main mountain range of the Cordillera Central in the east. The vegetation is that of the Puna , the climate is semi-arid and a typical time of day climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuation during the day is more pronounced than during the seasons.
The mean annual average temperature of Macha is around 12 ° C, the monthly averages fluctuate between almost 9 ° C in July and almost 15 ° C in November (see climate diagram Pocoata). The annual precipitation is only 450 mm and falls mainly in the summer months, the dry season with monthly values of a maximum of 20 mm lasts from April to October.
Transport network
Macha is located at a distance of 149 kilometers by road north of Potosí , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Potosí, the Ruta 1 road leads north via Tarapaya , Yocalla and Cruce Culta to Oruro and El Alto , the neighboring town of La Paz , and to Desaguadero on Lake Titicaca .
In Cruce Culta (formerly: Ventilla) a dirt road branches off the main road in a northerly direction and after 38 kilometers it reaches Ruta 6 two kilometers north of Macha . Ruta 6 continues from here in a south-easterly direction via Ocurí to Sucre and in a north-westerly direction via Pocoata and Uncía to Oruro .
population
The population of the village has increased by around a quarter in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 791 | census |
| 2001 | 829 | census |
| 2012 | 1 135 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Colquechaca 78 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
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.
- ↑ INE social data Potosí 2001 (PDF file; 5.24 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Uncia region 1: 250,000 (JPEG; 8.22 MB)
- Municipio Colquechaca - General Maps No. 50401
- Municipio Colquechaca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 964 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )
