Mojocoya
| Mojocoya | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 294 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2343 m | ||
| Post Code | 01-0303-0103-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 46 ′ S , 64 ° 37 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Jaime Zudáñez Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Redención Pampa |
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Mojocoya is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
location
Mojocoya is the central place of the municipality Mojocoya in the province of Jaime Zudáñez . The village is located at an altitude of 2343 m on a plateau between the Río Zudáñez in the west, the Río Tomina in the east and the Río Grande in the north.
geography
Mojocoya lies in the transition area between the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central and the Bolivian lowlands. The region has a typical time-of-day climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations are greater during the day than during the year.
The annual average temperature of the region is almost 16 ° C (see climate diagram for the neighboring town of Redención Pampa) and fluctuates only slightly between a good 12 ° C in July and a good 17 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is almost 600 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to August with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with 100 to 125 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Mojocoya is located at a distance of 196 kilometers by road northeast of Sucre , the capital of the department.
From Sucre, the 976 kilometer long national road Ruta 6 leads east via Zudáñez to Tomina and further into the Bolivian lowlands to the megacity Santa Cruz . Thirteen kilometers after Zudáñez, a dirt road turns north, after 49 km it crosses Redención Pampa and after another eleven kilometers reaches Mojocoya .
population
The population of the village has been subject to significant fluctuations over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 156 | census |
| 2001 | 353 | census |
| 2012 | 294 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Mojocoya 95.9 percent of the population speak Quechua .
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; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Aiquile region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.35 MB)
- Municipio Mojocoya - General Maps No. 10303
- Municipio Mojocoya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 453 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )