Mina Asientos
| Mina Asientos | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1884 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 1877 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-1301-0201-9001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 13 ′ S , 65 ° 33 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Mizque Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Torotoro |
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Mina Asientos is a mining settlement in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Mina Asientos is the largest town in the canton of Tin Tin in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Mizque in the Mizque province . The village is located at an altitude of 1877 m at the confluence of the Río Molinero in the Río Caine , upper reaches of the Río Grande .
geography
Mina Asientos lies between the two Andean mountain ranges of the Cordillera Central and Cordillera Oriental .
The climate is pleasantly balanced due to the medium altitude, but very dry for large parts of the year. The mean average temperature of the region is around 18 ° C (see Torotoro climate diagram), the monthly mean fluctuates only slightly between 14.5 ° C in July and 20 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is about 560 mm, with a clearly pronounced dry season from April to October with monthly precipitation below 25 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with well over 100 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Mina Asientos is located at a distance of 216 kilometers by road southeast of Cochabamba , the capital of the department.
From Cochabamba, the Ruta 7 highway continues in a south-westerly direction via Paracaya to the lowlands to Santa Cruz . In Paracaya the route 23 branches off in a south-westerly direction, which leads via the cities of Punata , Arani and Mizque to Aiquile and then on to Sucre . From Mizque a subordinate but paved road then crosses the Río Chullpa Mayu and the Río Mizque in a westerly direction and follows the Río Mizque upstream via Tin Tin towards Vila Vila . Fourteen kilometers west of Tin Tin, a dirt road branches off in a southerly direction, overcomes a pass height of 2900 meters and reaches Mina Asientos after 31 kilometers.
population
The population of the village has increased significantly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 638 | census |
| 2012 | 1 884 | census |
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.
Web links
- Relief map of the Punata region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.12 MB)
- Municipio Mizque - General Maps No. 31301
- Municipio Mizque - detailed map and population data (PDF; 793 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Cochabamba - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 7.58 MB) ( Spanish )