Matancillas (Villazón)
| Matancillas | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 801 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3427 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-1501-0100-5002 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 22 ° 4 ′ S , 65 ° 35 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Modesto Omiste Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Villazón |
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Matancillas is a town in the Potosí Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Matancillas is - after Villazón - the most populous place in the canton Villazón in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Villazón in the province Modesto Omiste . The village is located at an altitude of 3427 m immediately north of Villazón on the Río Lampaya, which is connected via the Río Sococha with the Río San Juan del Oro , which in turn leads to the Río Pilcomayo .
geography
Matancillas is located in the southern part of the barren plateau of the Bolivian Altiplano . The climate is cool and dry because of the inland location and there is a typical daytime climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations between day and night are usually significantly greater than the seasonal fluctuations.
The annual average temperature is 11 ° C (see Villazón climate diagram) and fluctuates only slightly between a good 5 ° C in June / July and a good 14 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is only about 350 mm, with a strongly pronounced dry season from April to October with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a weakly pronounced humidity period from December to February with 70 to 90 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Matancillas is 350 kilometers by road south of Potosí , the capital of the department of the same name, and only a few kilometers from the border with Argentina .
From Potosí, the Ruta 1 highway, coming from Lake Titicaca , heads south-east and reaches the town of Cuchu Ingenio after 37 kilometers . Here the Ruta 14 branches off , which reaches the town of Tupiza after 224 kilometers via Tumusla , Cotagaita and Hornillos . From there the Ruta 14 continues via Suipacha , Yuruma , Mojo to Cuartos and ends south of Matancillas near Villazón on the Argentine border. The entire route from Potosí to Villazón has now been paved.
population
The population of the village has increased fourfold in the past decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | below 200 | census |
| 2001 | 540 | census |
| 2012 | 801 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Villazón 37.8 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; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Villazón region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 827 kB)
- Municipio Villazón - detailed map and population data (PDF; 628 kB Spanish )
- Municipio Villazón - General Maps No. 51501
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF: 5.23 MB Spanish )