Polloquiri
| Polloquiri | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 48 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3888 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1004-0401-4005 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 22 ′ S , 66 ° 54 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Inquisivi Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Colquiri |
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Polloquiri is a hamlet in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Polloquiri is a village in the canton of Coriri in the municipality of Colquiri in the Inquisivi province . The village lies at an altitude of 3888 m between the southeastern foothills of the Serranía de Sicasica in the west, and the Sierra Maso Cruz in the east.
geography
Polloquiri lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands in the east. The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.
The annual average temperature of the Polloquiri region is 7 ° C (see Colquiri climate diagram), the average monthly values fluctuate only insignificantly between 3 ° C in June and July and 9 ° C from November to February. The annual precipitation is 500 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the dry season from May to August and 100 to 120 mm in January and February.
Transport network
Polloquiri is located at a distance of 419 kilometers by road southeast of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz, the paved road Ruta 1 leads in a south-easterly direction 300 kilometers via Patacamaya and Sica Sica to Caracollo , and from there Ruta 4 to the east for another 30 kilometers to Lequepalca . Five kilometers after Lequepalca, at the mouth of the Río Janho Kkota near Thola Pampa / Aranjuez, a dirt road branches off to the north and reaches Chiarquipa after 35 kilometers via Ancocota and Caluyo . From here in an easterly direction the road divides after a kilometer and a half; the road leading to the northeast leads to Lanza Mohoza , nine kilometers away , the road leading to the east leads after 29 kilometers via Polloquiri to Challani and Coriri and ends there at the Río Leque.
population
The small population of the village has more than doubled in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 20th | census |
| 2012 | 48 | census |
The population of the region is above all the indigenous people of the Aymara on, 82.9 percent of the inhabitants of the municipality colquiri speak Aymara .
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.
Web links
- Relief map of the Oruro-Cochabamba region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.6 MB)
- Relief map of the Independencia region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.5 MB)
- Municipio Colquiri - General Maps No. 21004
- Municipio Colquiri - detailed map and population data (PDF; 588 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )