Pagador
| Pagador | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 284 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3694 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0901-1200-1003 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 12 ′ S , 68 ° 33 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Sabaya Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Sabaya |
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Pagador is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Pagador is the central place of the canton Pagador in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Sabaya in the province of Sabaya . The village is located at an altitude of 3694 m near the border with Chile , about fifteen kilometers east of the Chilean border town Colchane . Pagador is halfway between the salt lake Salar de Coipasa, fifteen kilometers to the southeast, and the northwestern peaks of Cerro Cabaraya (5886 m) and Cerro Separaya (5571 m).
geography
Pagador is on the edge of the Bolivian Altiplano , which is bounded here to the west by the Cordillera Occidental .
The climate in the region is semi-arid , the annual precipitation is low 200 mm (see climate diagram Sabaya). From April to November there is a dry season with monthly values of less than 10 mm of precipitation, the wet season in summer is short and the rain is not very productive. The annual average temperature is almost 7 ° C without significant fluctuations in the course of the year, but with strong daily fluctuations in temperature and frequent changes in frost .
The vegetation in the region corresponds to the semi-arid puna . It is treeless and mainly consists of thorn bushes , grasses , succulents and cushion plants . It is used economically as a llama , alpaca and sheep pasture .
Transport network
Pagador is located at a distance of 223 kilometers by road southwest of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
The 279 kilometer long and largely unpaved highway Ruta 12 runs through Pagador, which comes from Caihuasi and crosses the city of Oruro and then via Ancaravi , Huachacalla and Sabaya to Pisiga Bolívar on the Chilean border and continues in Chile as "Ruta San Pedro de Atacama" becomes.
population
The population of the place has increased several times over in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 42 | census |
| 2001 | 134 | census |
| 2012 | 284 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Sabaya 62.9 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carola Dörrie, Soil and Vegetation in the Huachacalla Area (PDF file; 21.84 MB)
- ^ 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 (PDF file; 11.63 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Salinas de Garci-Mendoza region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.44 MB)
- Municipio Sabaya - General Maps No. 40901
- Municipio Sabaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 807 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )