Machipo
Machipo | ||
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Basic data | ||
Full name | Machipo community | |
Residents (state) | 327 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 782 m | |
Post Code | 07-0702-0101-7001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 19 ° 50 ′ S , 63 ° 11 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Santa Cruz | |
province | Cordillera Province | |
climate | ||
Climate diagram Camiri |
Machipo is a town in the Cochabamba department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Machipo is a village in the canton of Charagua in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Charagua in the province of Cordillera . The village is located at an altitude of 782 m between the Voranden chain of Serranía Charagua , which rises to more than 1000 m west of Machipo , and the wetland of the Bañados de Izozog in the east.
geography
Machipo is located in the tropical climate of the Gran Chaco , South America , the six-month wet season extends from November to April and the dry season from May to October.
The annual average temperature is 23 ° C (see Camiri climate diagram), with 17 to 18 ° C from June to July and over 26 ° C from November to December. The annual precipitation is almost 900 mm, the wettest months are December and January with 175 mm and the driest months July and August with almost 10 mm.
Transport network
Machipo is located at a distance of 277 kilometers by road south of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Santa Cruz, the paved road Ruta 9 leads south via Cabezas to Abapó on the banks of the Río Grande and on via Ipitá and Villamontes to Yacuiba on the Bolivian border with Argentina . Five kilometers south of Abapó, Ruta 36 branches off in an easterly direction , which is paved for the first 39 kilometers to San Isidro del Espino and then continues on 91 kilometers of unpaved road via Igmiri , Saipurú and Tapyta to Charagua and on to Machipo .
population
The population of the village has decreased by about 15 percent between the last two published censuses . Detailed data from the current census from 2012 are not yet available:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | 337 | census |
2001 | 289 | census |
2012 | 327 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Guaraní population, in the Municipio Charagua 48.8 percent of the population speak the Guaraní 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 Santa Cruz 2001 (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Charagua region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 6.23 MB)
- Municipio Charagua - General Maps No. 70702
- Municipio Charagua - detailed map and population data (PDF; 4.28 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )