Marquina (Quillacollo)

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Marquina
Basic data
Residents (state) 1597 pop. (2001 census)
height 2711  m
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 17 ° 20 ′  S , 66 ° 17 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 20 ′  S , 66 ° 17 ′  W
Marquina (Bolivia)
Marquina
Marquina
politics
Department Cochabamba
province Quillacollo Province
climate
Climate diagram Cochabamba
Climate diagram Cochabamba

Marquina was an independent village in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Marquina was a town in the province of Quillacollo , the area of ​​which was roughly equal in the two counties ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Quillacollo and Vinto . Marquina is located at an altitude of 2711  m on the right western bank of the Río Liriuni , which flows from the slopes of the Cochabamba Cordillera into the Cochabamba basin. With effect from the census of 2012, Marquina is no longer listed as an independent town, but now, together with Ironcollo in the south, a district of the city of Quillacollo .

geography

Marquina 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

Marquina is located twenty kilometers by road northwest of Cochabamba , the capital of the department, and seven kilometers 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 .

population

The population of the village has increased several times over in the last decade of the last century:

year Residents source
1992 307 census
2001 1,597 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% of the population still speak the Quechua language - despite the urban transformation .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. ↑ INE social data Cochabamba 2001 (PDF; 8.0 MB)

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