Payacollo
| Payacollo | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1127 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2548 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-0902-0300-7001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 26 ′ S , 66 ° 20 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Quillacollo Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Cochabamba |
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Payacollo is a village in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Payacollo is the seventh largest town in the canton of Mallco Rancho in the municipality of Sipe Sipe in the province of Quillacollo . The village is located at the western end of the plain of Cochabamba at an altitude of 2548 m on the left, northeast bank of the Río Viloma shortly before its confluence with the Río Rocha , the main source of the Bolivian Río Grande .
geography
Payacollo lies between the Bolivian Cordillera Central and the Cordillera Oriental in the transition area to 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 and July and 20 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is about 450 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a rain maximum in January with 120 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Payacollo is located at a distance of 21 kilometers by road west of Cochabamba , the capital of the department.
From Cochabamba the paved road Ruta 4 leads west over the town of Quillacollo past Vinto towards Sipe Sipe . Payacollo is right in front of the bridge that spans the Viloma River.
population
The population of the village has increased by a fifth in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 938 | census |
| 2012 | 1 127 | 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
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
- ↑ INE social data 2001 (PDF file; 11.6 MB)
Web links
- Raised relief map of the Cochabamba region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.6 MB)
- Municipio Sipe Sipe - General Maps No. 30902
- Municipio Sipe Sipe - detailed map and population data (PDF; 440 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department of Cochabamba - Social data (PDF; 7.58 MB) ( Spanish )