Piocera

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Piocera
Basic data
Residents (state) 224 pop. (2012 census)
height 2935  m
Post Code 01-0103-0200-6001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 18 ° 45 ′  S , 65 ° 24 ′  W Coordinates: 18 ° 45 ′  S , 65 ° 24 ′  W
Piocera (Bolivia)
Piocera
Piocera
politics
Department Chuquisaca
province Oropeza Province
climate
Climate diagram Sucre
Climate diagram Sucre

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

Location in the vicinity

Piocera is the fifth largest town in the canton of Pojpo in the municipality of Poroma in the province of Oropeza . The village is located at an altitude of 3006  m above the Río Porras, which flows 800 meters east of the village two hundred meters lower. The Río Porras merges into the Río Palca, one of the two source rivers of the Río Chico , a tributary of the Bolivian Río Grande .

geography

Piocera is located east of the Altiplano in the Bolivian Cordillera Central . The climate is a moderate altitude climate and a typical time of day climate , in which the average temperature fluctuation is greater during the day than during the year.

The annual average temperature in the region is around 16 ° C (see climate diagram Sucre), the monthly averages fluctuate between 14 ° C in June / July and 17 ° C in October / November. The annual precipitation is about 700 mm and has five arid months from May to September with monthly values ​​below 25 mm, and a significant humidity period from December to February with monthly precipitation between 125 and 150 mm.

Transport network

Piocera is 62 km by road north of Sucre , the capital of the department.

The highway Ruta 5 runs through Sucre, which leads in a west-east direction from the Chilean border in the west via Sucre to the lowlands of Santa Cruz ; and Ruta 6 , which runs from the border with Paraguay via Sucre in a north-west direction to Machacamarca in the Oruro department .

The road from Sucre to Pojpo first follows Ruta 5 north from the city center, and then leaves Ruta 5 in Barrio Katalla Baja, leaving the airfield of the old Sucre airport "Juana Azurduy de Padilla" on the left, and reaches past the locality of Llimphi and finally La Barranca . From here the road continues north via Chijmuri to Piocera .

population

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

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 307 census
2012 224 census

Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Poroma 99.5 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
  4. ↑ INE social data Chuquisaca 2001 (PDF; 4.4 MB)

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