Pocona (Cochabamba)
Pocona | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 440 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 2721 m | |
Post Code | 03-1203-0102-3001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 17 ° 40 ′ S , 65 ° 25 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Cochabamba | |
province | Carrasco Province | |
climate | ||
Climate diagram Totora |
Pocona is a town in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Pocona is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Pocona in the province of Carrasco . The village is located at an altitude of 2721 m on the right bank of the Río Pocona Mayu , which drains in a south-easterly direction to the Río Mizque .
geography
Pocona is located in one of the high valleys of the Cordillera Oriental mountain range , which merges eastward into the Bolivian lowlands. The region's climate is characterized by a typical daytime climate in which the temperature differences between day and night are more pronounced than between the seasons.
The annual average temperature is 14 ° C, the monthly values fluctuate between 11 ° C in June / July and 16 ° C in November / December (see Totora climate diagram). The annual precipitation is 600 mm and falls mainly in the summer months from December to February with monthly values of 100 to 125 mm; This contrasts with a dry season from May to October with monthly precipitation of less than 30 mm.
traffic
Pocona is located at a distance of 110 kilometers by road southeast of Cochabamba , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Cochabamba the paved highway Ruta 7 leads via Tolata and Paracaya to Epizana and on via Pojo , Comarapa and La Angostura to the lowland metropolis of Santa Cruz . Ten kilometers north-west of Epizana, a dirt road branches off in a south-westerly direction and after twenty kilometers reaches Pocona .
population
The population of the place almost doubled between 1992 and 2012:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | 259 | census |
2001 | 244 | census |
2012 | 440 | census |
Due to the historically developed population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Pocona 99.1 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Personalities
- Abel Costas Montaño (born May 25, 1920 in Pocona, † February 11, 2015 in Cochabamba ), was Bishop of Tarija .
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
- ↑ INE social data 2001 (PDF; 8.0 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Punata region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.12 MB)
- Municipio Pocona - General Maps No. 31203
- Municipio Pocona - detailed map and population data (PDF; 550 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Cochabamba - Social data of the municipalities ( Spanish ) (PDF; 7.58 MB)