Muyupampa
| Muyupampa | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 3215 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 137 | ||
| height | 1189 m | ||
| Post Code | 01-1001-0170-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 54 ′ S , 63 ° 45 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Luis Calvo Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Muyupampa |
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Muyupampa (also: Villa Vaca Guzmán or Villa Vittorio Guzmán ) is a country town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
location
Muyupampa is the seat of the administration of the province Luis Calvo and the central place of the Municipio Municipio Villa Vaca Guzmán . The city is located at an altitude of 1189 m on the Río Ñancahuazú , a left tributary of the Río Parapetí . Muyupampa and is bordered to the east by the Serranía del Incahuasi and to the west by the Serranía del Iñao .
geography
Muyupampa is nestled on the western edge of the Bolivian lowlands between north-south running Voranden mountain ranges on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Cordillera Central . The climate is subtropical , the six-month wet season extends from November to April and the dry season from May to October.
The annual average temperature is a good 20 ° C, with 16 ° C from June to July and over 23 ° C from November to January (see Muyupampa climate diagram). The annual precipitation is almost 750 mm, the wettest months are December to February with about 130 mm and the driest months July and August with average values below 10 mm.
Transport network
Muyupampa lies at a distance of 366 kilometers by road southeast of the departmental capital Sucre .
The city is located on the 976 kilometer long national road Ruta 6 , which connects Sucre with the Bolivian lowlands. The road in the Muyupampa area between Monteagudo in the west and Lagunillas in the east is or is currently being paved (as of 2020).
Muyupampa is connected to the national air transport network through an unpaved taxiway, which has the abbreviation " SLYP " in the ICAO code .
population
The city's population has increased by about one and a half times over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 2 052 | census |
| 2001 | 2,327 | census |
| 2012 | 3 215 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a certain proportion of Guaraní population, in the Municipio Villa Vaca Guzmán 24.4 percent of the population speak the Guaraní language .
history
In 1967 the name Muyupampa went through the world press when an attack by the guerrilla group around Che Guevara on the village failed in April . At the same time, the then 26-year-old French scientist Régis Debray and two companions were arrested near the small town and later sentenced to thirty years in prison on charges of high treason .
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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 Santa Cruz 2001 (PDF file; 5.0 MB)
- ↑ Che Guevara - Bolivian Diary (English) ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 Charagua region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 6.23 MB)
- Municipio Villa Vaca Guzmán - General Maps No. 11001
- Municipio Villa Vaca Guzmán - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.52 MB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )