Manquiri
| Manquiri | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 420 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3520 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0101-0401-9006 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 26 ′ S , 65 ° 43 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Tomás Frías Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Potosí |
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Manquiri is a town in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Manquiri is a village in the canton of Chulchucani in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Potosí in the province of Tomás Frías . The village is located at an altitude of 3520 m on the left, southern bank of the Río Manquiri , a right tributary of the Río Tarapaya , which flows to the Río Pilcomayo , a tributary of the Río Paraguay . Manquiri is known for its church, which was built here in the 17th century on a pilgrimage site where hot thermal springs come to the surface.
geography
Manquiri is located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano in front of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central . The climate is the typical daytime climate of the cold tropics , in which the mean temperature differences between day and night are more pronounced than those between the seasons.
The annual average temperature of the region is around 11 ° C (see Potosí climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 8 ° C in June / July and 13 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is around 350 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the months May to September and almost 80 mm in January and February.
Transport network
Manquiri is located at a distance of 25 kilometers by road north of Potosí , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Potosí, the highway Ruta 5 leads in a north-easterly direction via Betanzos to Sucre and on to La Palizada , where it meets the Ruta 7 between Santa Cruz and Cochabamba . Twelve kilometers after Potosí, an unpaved road turns north from Ruta 5 and after thirteen kilometers reaches Manquiri .
population
The population of the place has increased dramatically in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no data | census |
| 2001 | 22nd | census |
| 2012 | 420 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Potosí 71.2 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bolivia Travel Site ( English )
- ^ 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; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Potosí - detailed map and population data (PDF; 722 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Potosí - General Maps No. 50101
- Department Potosí - Social data of the provinces and municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )