Paredón (Chuquisaca)

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Paredón
Basic data
Residents (state) 254 pop. (2012 census)
height 2031  m
Post Code 01-0101-0701-2001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 18 ° 56 ′  S , 65 ° 9 ′  W Coordinates: 18 ° 56 ′  S , 65 ° 9 ′  W
Paredón (Bolivia)
Paredón
Paredón
politics
Department Chuquisaca
province Oropeza Province
climate
Climate diagram Poroma
Climate diagram Poroma

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

Location in the vicinity

Paredón is the fourth largest town in the canton of Mojotoro in the municipality of Sucre in the province of Oropeza . The village is located at an altitude of 2031  m on the right, western bank of the Río Chico , which flows downstream after another 53 kilometers into the Bolivian Río Grande .

geography

Paredón is located 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

Paredón is 36 kilometers by road northeast 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 Mojotoro , Chaco and Chuqui Chuqui in the lowland of Santa Cruz , where in La Palizada the Ruta 7 meets.

Three kilometers before the town of Chaco, a dirt road branches off to the northwest from Ruta 5, crosses the lower reaches of Río Santiago, Río Chaquimayu and Sunchu Tambo and after four kilometers reaches Paredón . From here there is another seven-kilometer road connection to Kacha Kacha at the mouth of the Río Luje and the Río Chico.

population

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

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 215 census
2012 254 census

Due to the historically grown population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, despite the municipal function of the municipality in the capital, 61.6 percent of the population in the municipality of Sucre still 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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