Maragua (Oropeza)
| Maragua | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 227 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3060 m | ||
| Post Code | 01-0101-1400-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 3 ′ S , 65 ° 26 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Oropeza Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Sucre |
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Maragua is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Maragua is the central place of the canton of Maragua in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Sucre in the province of Oropeza . The village is located at an altitude of 3060 m in the center of the Maragua crater (also: Socapampa crater ), which has a diameter of about six kilometers and was created by erosion.
geography
Maragua is east of the Bolivian Altiplano on the western edge of the Cordillera Central . The climate is a moderate altitude climate and a typical time of day climate , in which the average temperature fluctuation is greater during the day than during the year.
The annual average temperature in the region is around 16 ° C (see climate diagram Sucre), the monthly averages fluctuate between 14 ° C in June / July and 17 ° C in October / November. The annual precipitation is about 700 mm and has five arid months from May to September with monthly values below 25 mm, and a significant humidity period from December to February with monthly precipitation between 125 and 150 mm.
Transport network
Maragua is 51 kilometers by road west of Sucre , the capital of the department.
The 976 kilometer long highway Ruta 6 leads through Sucre, which leads from the Bolivian lowlands on the border with Paraguay in the east via Padilla to Sucre and on to Oruro in the highlands. From Sucre, the road leads past the city's airport in a north-westerly direction, and after 22 kilometers a dirt road branches off from Ruta 6 in a south-westerly direction near the village of Punilla . After eighteen kilometers it reaches Chaunaca and continues west to Potolo . From Chaunaca, a side road finally leads south to Maragua .
population
The population of the village has decreased to less than half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 588 | census |
| 2001 | 281 | census |
| 2012 | 227 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Sucre 61.6 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 Chuquisaca 2001 (PDF; 4.4 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Sucre - General Maps No. 10101
- Municipio Sucre - detailed map and population data (PDF; 738 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )