Potobamba
| Potobamba | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 468 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2878 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0301-0404-9001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 19 ′ S , 65 ° 23 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Province of Cornelio Saavedra | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Betanzos |
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Potobamba is a town in the Potosí department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Potobamba is the central place of the canton Potobamba in the municipality Betanzos in the province Cornelio Saavedra . The place is located at an altitude of 2878 m on the right, eastern steep bank of the Río Potobamba, which flows nine kilometers downstream into the Río Pilcomayo .
geography
Potobamba lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The climate of the region is a typical time of day climate , in which the temperature fluctuations during the day are greater than during the year.
The annual average temperature in the valleys of the region is around 17 ° C (see Betanzo's climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 14 ° C in June / July and 19 ° C from November to January. The annual rainfall is almost 500 mm, the months May to September are arid with monthly values below 15 mm, only in January a rainfall of 100 mm is reached.
Transport network
Potobamba is 77 kilometers by road east of Potosí , the capital of the department.
The supraregional highway Ruta 5 leads through Potosí, which leads from the Chilean border in an easterly direction via Uyuni and Pulacayo to Potosí and on via Betanzos and Sucre to La Palizada in the lowlands, where it meets the north-south running Ruta 7 .
Two and a half kilometers east of the Betanzos exit, a dirt road branches off from Ruta 5 in a south-easterly direction and leads on well-developed 43 kilometers via Quivincha and Vila Vila to Potobamba .
population
The population of the village has increased slightly in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 418 | census |
| 2012 | 468 | census |
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 6536-III of the Tasapampa region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.54 MB)
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Betanzos - General Maps No. 50301
- Municipio Betanzos - detailed map and population data (PDF; 735 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )