Otuyo
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 View of Otuyo |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 144 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2941 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0301-0202-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 29 ′ S , 65 ° 14 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Province of Cornelio Saavedra | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Betanzos |
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Otuyo is a town in the Potosí Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Otuyo is the central location of the canton of Otuyo in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Betanzos in the province of Cornelio Saavedra . The place is at an altitude of 2941 m on a tributary of the Río Mataca, which flows into the Río Pilcomayo almost 20 kilometers below Otuyo .
geography
Otuyo lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The climate of the region is a typical time of day climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are greater than during the year.
The annual average temperature in the region is around 17 ° C (see Betanzo's climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 14 ° C in June / July and 19 ° C from November to January. The annual rainfall is almost 500 mm, the months May to September are arid with monthly values below 15 mm, only in January a rainfall of 100 mm is reached.
Transport network
Otuyo is 80 kilometers by road east of Potosí , the capital of the department.
A few kilometers east of Otuyo leads the national highway Ruta 5 , which leaves Ruta 7 , which runs north-south along the Cordillera Oriental, at La Palizada and heads south-west to the Chilean border. The Ruta 5 passes the cities of Aiquile , Sucre and Yotala , crosses the Río Pilcomayo and after a total of 407 kilometers reaches the city of Betanzos . From here it leads over Potosí, Ticatica , Pulacayo and Uyuni for another 491 kilometers to Chile.
Forty-four kilometers east of Betanzos, a dirt road branches off from Ruta 5 to the west, which after five kilometers reaches the village of Otuyo and continues from there to Potobamba .
population
The population of the village has decreased by about a third in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 230 | census |
| 2001 | 222 | census |
| 2012 | 144 | 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 Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Betanzos - General Maps No. 50301
- Municipio Betanzos - detailed map and population data (PDF; 735 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )