Pocpo Collo
| Pocpo Collo | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 186 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2585 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-0901-0173-7001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 22 ′ S , 66 ° 15 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Quillacollo Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Cochabamba |
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Pocpo Collo (also: Pojpo Collo ) is a town in the Department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Pocpo Collo is a village in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Quillacollo in the province of the same name Quillacollo and is located at an altitude of 2585 m on the southern edge of the Cochabamba Cordillera in the Cochabamba basin. Since the 2012 census, parts of Pocpo Collo have been incorporated into the city of Quillacollo , which explains the sharp decline in population of the place between 2001 and 2012.
geography
Pocpo Collo is located in the transition area between the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central and 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 / July and 20 ° C in October / November. The annual precipitation is only around 450 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with 90 to 120 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Pocpo Collo is 13 kilometers by road from Cochabamba , the capital of the department, and four kilometers northeast of Quillacollo , the administrative center of the province.
The 1,657-kilometer Ruta 4 highway runs through Cochabamba and Quillacollo and begins in the far west on the Chilean border at Tambo Quemado . It leads across the country via Quillacollo , Cochabamba and Villa Tunari to Santa Cruz and ends in the southeastern part of the country on the border with Brazil at the city of Puerto Quijarro .
Eleven kilometers west of Cochabamba, one kilometer west of Colcapirhua , a road branches off from Ruta 4 to the north in the direction of the city of El Paso and after two kilometers reaches Pocpo Collo .
population
The population of the village had increased significantly in the decade before last, due to the incorporation of parts of the village into Quillacollo, the population of the remaining municipality is now only a fraction of the original value:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 900 | census |
| 2001 | 1 470 | census |
| 2012 | 186 | census |
Due to the historical distribution of the population, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population. In the municipality of Quillacollo, 55.8 percent of the population still speak the Quechua language - despite the urban transformation .
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 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 Cochabamba 2001 (PDF; 8.0 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Cochabamba region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.6 MB)
- Municipio Quillacollo - General Maps No. 30901
- Municipio Quillacollo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 434 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Cochabamba - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 7.58 MB) ( Spanish )