Pajcha

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Pajcha
Basic data
Residents (state) 113 pop. (2012 census)
height 2286  m
Post Code 01-0601-0200-6001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 18 ° 59 ′  S , 65 ° 2 ′  W Coordinates: 18 ° 59 ′  S , 65 ° 2 ′  W
Pajcha (Bolivia)
Pajcha
Pajcha
politics
Department Chuquisaca
province Yamparáez Province
climate
Climate diagram Poroma
Climate diagram Poroma

Pajcha is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Pajcha is the central place of the canton of Pajcha in the municipality of Tarabuco in the province of Yamparáez . The village is located at an altitude of 2286  m on the right, northern bank of the Río Pajcha, which flows fourteen kilometers downstream into the Río Chico , a right tributary of the Río Grande .

geography

Pajcha lies between the Altiplano and the Bolivian lowlands in the ridge of the Bolivian Cordillera Central . The climate is a cool, moderate mountain climate with a typical time of day climate , in which the temperature differences fluctuate more strongly during the day than during the year.

The average temperature of the region is around 17 ° C (see Poroma climate diagram) and fluctuates over the course of the year between almost 14 ° C in July and 19 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is a good 600 mm, with the monthly precipitation in the half-yearly dry season from April to October being below 30 mm, while in the southern summer from December to February monthly values ​​between 120 and 150 mm are reached.

Transport network

Pajcha is 58 kilometers by road east of Sucre , the capital of the department.

By Sucre leading highway Ruta 5 , identified by the Chilean border in the west via Uyuni and Potosí to Sucre leads and further in an easterly direction over Chaco and Chuqui Chuqui in the lowland of Santa Cruz , where in La Palizada the Ruta 7 applies.

In the village of Chaco, route 5 crosses the Río Pajcha, and a road branching off from there in a north-easterly direction reaches Pajcha after fourteen kilometers.

population

The population of the village has decreased significantly in the past decade:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 161 census
2012 113 census

Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Tarabuco 98.6 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
  4. ↑ INE social data Chuquisaca 2001 (PDF; 4.4 MB)

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