Peñas (Oruro)
| Peñas | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1386 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3815 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0602-0301-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 41 ′ S , 66 ° 45 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Poopó Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Challapata |
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Peñas is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Peñas is the central place of the canton Peñas in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Pazña in the province Poopó . The location situated at an altitude of 3815 m at the middle reaches of the river Peñas that of in the further course in the southeastern part Poopó Lake opens an approximately 1,300 square kilometers large Salt Lake south of the city Oruro .
geography
Peñas is located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano in front of the Azanaques Cordillera, which is part of the Cordillera Central mountain range . The climate of the region is a typical time of day climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than in the course of the seasons.
The average annual temperature in the region is 8–9 ° C (see Challapata climate diagram) and fluctuates between 4 ° C in June and July and 11 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is almost 350 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to October with monthly precipitation below 15 mm, and significant precipitation only from December to March with 60 to 80 mm monthly precipitation.
traffic
Peñas is located at a distance of 129 kilometers by road south of Oruro, the capital of the department of the same name.
From Desaguadero on Lake Titicaca , the asphalted highway Ruta 1 crosses the Bolivian highlands in a north-south direction. It leads via El Alto and Oruro to Pazña and from there on in a southerly direction via Potosí and Tarija to Bermejo on the Bolivian- Argentine border.
About 19 kilometers south of Pazña, a dirt road branches off in an easterly direction and leads to Peñas .
population
The population of the place has decreased by about a fifth in the decade between the two last published censuses . Detailed data from the current census from 2012 are not yet available:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 207 | census |
| 2001 | 162 | census |
| 2012 | 1386 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Pazña 66.5 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Cañadón Peñas
Cañadón Peñas ( cañadón = field in the valley that is flooded when it rains; peña = rock, mountain ) is the name for a development project in the canton of Peñas that has been supported by German World Hunger Aid since around 2005 as one of fifteen " Millennium Villages " . In joint workshops, the impoverished inhabitants of the Peñas Valley, together with experts from Welthungerhilfe, have drawn up a five-year plan, the improvements of which are to be implemented in four areas: nutrition, the economy, education, and a say for women. These goals are to be achieved through improvements in animal husbandry, the establishment of small cheese factories and the establishment of schools with lunch. With this project, Welthungerhilfe is not only supporting the 400 families in the Peñas Valley, but also the 13,000 rural residents of the Pazña and Antequera region, whose schools are involved in the project.
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.
- ↑ INE social data Oruro 2001 (PDF; 6.2 MB)
- ↑ Welthungerhilfe ( Memento of the original from January 9, 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
- Relief map of the Uncia region 1: 250,000 (JPEG; 8.22 MB)
- Municipio Pazña - General Maps No. 40602
- Municipio Pazña - detailed map and population data (PDF; 331 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )
