Porco (Potosí)
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 View of the city of Porco |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 5287 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 85 | ||
| height | 4106 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-1203-0100-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 48 ′ S , 65 ° 59 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Antonio Quijarro Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Potosí |
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Porco is a small town in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Porco is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Porco in the province of Antonio Quijarro . The settlement is located at an altitude of 4106 m on one of the tributaries to the Río Tumusla .
geography
Porco is located on the Altiplano in central Bolivia between the Cordillera de Chichas in the southwest and the Cordillera Central in the northeast.
The mean average temperature of the region is around 11 ° C (see Potosí climate diagram), the monthly average temperatures vary between 8 ° C in June / July and a good 13 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is only about 350 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to October with monthly precipitation between 0 and 15 mm, and a short humidity period from December to February with monthly precipitation of a good 70 mm.
Transport network
Porco is located at a distance of 50 kilometers by road southwest of Potosí , the capital of the department.
From Potosí, the Ruta 5 trunk road leads through the cities of Agua de Castilla , Chaquilla , Yura , Ticatica and Pulacayo to Uyuni on the Salar de Uyuni salt lake . At Agua de Castilla , a country road branches off in a south-easterly direction from Ruta 5 and after four kilometers reaches Porco .
population
The population of the village has almost tripled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 833 | census |
| 2001 | 1,975 | census |
| 2013 | 5 287 | census |
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 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 Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Porco - General Maps No. 51203
- Municipio Porco - detailed map and population data (PDF; 699 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )