Palca Grande
| Comunidad Palca Grande | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 64 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2343 m | ||
| Post Code | 01-0701-0101-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 20 ° 45 ′ S , 65 ° 14 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Nor Cinti Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Camargo |
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Palca Grande (also Quiskapampa ) is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Palca Grande is a village in the canton of Camargo in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Camargo in the province of Nor Cinti . Palca Grande is nestled in north-south mountain ranges at an altitude of 2343 m on the Río Chico , which flows downstream to the Rio Grande de Cinti (Río Tumusla and Río Cotagaita). Further south, this river joins the Río San Juan del Oro to form the Río Camblaya, which is called the Rio Pilaya further downstream and finally flows into the Río Pilcomayo .
geography
Palca Grande is located on the southwestern foothills of the Bolivian Cordillera Central , between the Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian lowlands in the east. The climate is a cool, moderate mountain climate with a typical time of day climate , in which the mean temperatures fluctuate more strongly during the day than during the year.
The annual average temperature in the region is just under 14 ° C (see Camargo climate diagram), the monthly averages fluctuate between just under 10 ° C in June / July and 16 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is 400 mm and has seven arid months from April to October with monthly values below 20 mm, significant monthly precipitation only falls from December to February with values of 80 to 90 mm each.
Transport network
Palca Grande is 363 kilometers by road south of Sucre , the capital of the department.
The 1,215 kilometer long highway Ruta 1 runs through Palca Grande, which leads from the Peruvian border on Lake Titicaca in the north to the Argentine border in the south and is completely paved. The next larger town, Camargo , is a few kilometers further north on Ruta 1.
population
The population of the village has decreased significantly in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 107 | census |
| 2012 | 64 | census |
The region still has a significant proportion of indigenous population, in the municipality of Camargo 38.6 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
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.
Web links
- Municipio Camargo - General Maps No. 10701
- Municipio Camargo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 452 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - Social data (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )