Parotani

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Parotani
Basic data
Residents (state) 2434 pop. (2012 census)
rank Rank 162
height 2490  m
Post Code 03-0902-0200-9001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 17 ° 34 ′  S , 66 ° 21 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 34 ′  S , 66 ° 21 ′  W
Parotani (Bolivia)
Parotani
Parotani
politics
Department Cochabamba
province Quillacollo Province
climate
Climate diagram Capinota
Climate diagram Capinota

Parotani is a country town in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Parotani is the largest town in the canton of Itapaya and is located in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Sipe Sipe in the province of Quillacollo . The city lies at an altitude of 2490  m in a basin on the right, western bank of the Río Rocha , the main source of the Bolivian Río Grande .

geography

Parotani is located in the Bolivian Cordillera Central in the transition area to the Bolivian lowlands. The region has a typical time-of-day climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.

The mean average temperature of the region is around 20 ° C (see Capinota climate diagram) and fluctuates only slightly between 16 ° C in June and July and a good 22 ° C in November and December. The annual precipitation is about 550 mm and has a pronounced dry season from April to November with monthly precipitation of less than 10 mm, only in the wet season from December to March up to 140 mm monthly precipitation.

Transport network

Parotani lies in a south-westerly direction 37 kilometers by road from Cochabamba , the capital of the department.

From Cochabamba, the paved road Ruta 4 leads in a westerly direction via the town of Quillacollo to Parotani , where country roads to Capinota , Arque and San Pedro de Buena Vista branch off to the south . West of Parotani , Ruta 4 continues to Caracollo , where it meets Ruta 1 , which crosses the Altiplano from north to south and provides connections to La Paz , Oruro and Potosí .

population

The population of the place has increased by about a third in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 1 788 census
2001 1 908 census
2012 2,434 census

Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Sipe Sipe 83.9 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 ( Memento of the original from March 13, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. INE social data 2001 (PDF; 8.0 MB)

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