Pandoja
| Pandoja | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 6611 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 68 | ||
| height | 2602 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-0901-0171-4701 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) 4 | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 22 ′ S , 66 ° 16 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Quillacollo Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Cochabamba |
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Pandoja is a country town in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Pandoja is the fifth largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Quillacollo in the province of Quillacollo of the same name . The city is located at an altitude of 2602 m on the eastern bank of the Río Liriuni , which flows from the slopes of the Cochabamba Cordillera into the Cochabamba basin and formerly formed a two kilometer long lake directly northwest of Pandoja, which was due to the population pressure in the valley by Cochabamba has since been drained.
geography
Pandoja lies in the transition area between the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central and the Bolivian lowlands.
The mean average temperature of the region is around 18 ° C (see climate diagram Cochabamba) and fluctuates only slightly between 14 ° C in June / July and 20 ° C in October / November. The annual precipitation is only around 450 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with 90 to 120 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Pandoja is located eighteen kilometers west of Cochabamba , the capital of the department, and five kilometers north of Quillacollo , the administrative center of the province.
The 1657 kilometer long highway Ruta 4 leads through Cochabamba and Quillacollo, which begins in the far west on the Chilean border at Tambo Quemado . It leads across the country via Quillacollo , Cochabamba and Villa Tunari to Santa Cruz and ends in the southeastern part of the country on the border with Brazil at the city of Puerto Quijarro .
population
The town's population has more than doubled over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 925 | census |
| 2001 | 1 624 | census |
| 2013 | 6 611 | census |
Due to the historical distribution of the population, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population. In the municipality of Quillacollo, 55.8 percent of the population still speak the Quechua language - despite the urban transformation .
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 March 4, 2016 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.
- ↑ INE social data Cochabamba 2001 (PDF; 8.0 MB)
Web links
- Raised relief map of the Cochabamba region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.6 MB)
- Municipio Quillacollo - General Maps No. 30901
- Municipio Quillacollo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 434 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Cochabamba - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 7.58 MB) ( Spanish )