Pojpo

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Pojpo
Basic data
Residents (state) 168 pop. (2012 census)
height 2416  m
Post Code 01-0103-0201-4001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 18 ° 48 ′  S , 65 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 18 ° 48 ′  S , 65 ° 20 ′  W
Pojpo (Bolivia)
Pojpo
Pojpo
politics
Department Chuquisaca
province Oropeza Province
climate
Climate diagram Poroma
Climate diagram Poroma

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

Location in the vicinity

Pojpo is the central place of the canton Pojpo in the municipality Poroma in the province of Oropeza . The village is located at an altitude of 2,416  m at the confluence of the Río Palca and the Río Portillo, which form the Río Chico downstream from Pojpo , which flows into the Bolivian Río Grande after a total of 93 kilometers .

geography

Pojpo lies between the Altiplano and the Bolivian lowlands in the ridge of the Bolivian Cordillera Central . The climate is a cool, moderate mountain climate with a typical time of day climate , in which the temperature differences fluctuate more strongly during the day than during the year.

The average temperature of the region is around 17 ° C (see Poroma climate diagram) and fluctuates over the course of the year between almost 14 ° C in July and 19 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is a good 600 mm, with the monthly precipitation in the half-yearly dry season from April to October being below 30 mm, while in the southern summer from December to February monthly values ​​between 120 and 150 mm are reached.

Transport network

Pojpo is 44 kilometers 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 from the city center first follows Ruta 5 to the north, then leaves Ruta 5 in Barrio Katalla Baja towards Llimphi and La Barranca to the northwest. At Molle Molle, northeast of the airfield of the old Sucre airport "Juana Azurduy de Padilla", a dirt road branches off towards Villa Allegria, but leaves the settlement to the left of the road and continues for a further thirty kilometers in a northerly direction over the local ridges of the Cordillera Central as far as the valley of the Río Chico to Pojpo .

population

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

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 110 census
2012 168 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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