Pirque (Sipe Sipe)
| Pirque | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 484 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2493 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-0902-0201-0001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 35 ′ S , 66 ° 21 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Quillacollo Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Capinota |
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Pirque is a town in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Pirque is the fourth largest town in the canton of Itapaya and is located in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Sipe Sipe in the province of Quillacollo . The village is located at an altitude of 2493 m in a basin directly on the right, southern bank of the Río Tapacarí , which flows into the Río Rocha at Tajra , the main source of the Bolivian Río Grande .
geography
Pirque 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
Pirque is 39 kilometers by road in a south-westerly direction 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 via Pirque to Caracollo , where it meets Ruta 1 , which crosses the Altiplano from north to south and provides connections to La Paz , Oruro and Potosí .
Where the Ruta 4 crosses the Río Tapacarí south of Parotani, an asphalt side road branches off in an easterly direction directly behind the bridge in Pirque and leads via Tajra to Itapaya, four kilometers away, at the confluence of the Río Kakiari into the Río Rocha.
population
The population of the place has increased by more than half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 299 | census |
| 2001 | 448 | census |
| 2012 | 484 | 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
- ^ 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 2001 (PDF; 8.0 MB)
Web links
- Municipio Sipe Sipe - General Maps No. 30902
- Municipio Sipe Sipe - detailed map and population data (PDF; 440 kB) (Spanish)
- Departamento Cochabamba - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 7.58 MB) ( Spanish )