Potolo
| Potolo | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 620 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3092 m | ||
| Post Code | 01-0101-0300-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 1 ′ S , 65 ° 32 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Oropeza Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Sucre |
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Potolo is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Potolo is the central place of the canton Potolo in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Sucre in the province of Oropeza . The village is located at an altitude of 3,092 m on a right tributary of the Río Tomoyo , which joins ten kilometers downstream at Chaunaca with the Río Ravelo to the Río Roque and flows on to the Río Pilcomayo .
geography
Potolo is east of the Altiplano in the Bolivian Cordillera Central . The climate is a moderate altitude climate and a typical time of day climate , in which the average temperature fluctuation is greater during the day than during the year.
The annual average temperature in the region is around 16 ° C (see climate diagram Sucre), the monthly averages fluctuate between 14 ° C in June / July and 17 ° C in October / November. The annual precipitation is about 700 mm and has five arid months from May to September with monthly values below 25 mm, and a significant humidity period from December to February with monthly precipitation between 125 and 150 mm.
Transport network
Potolo is 57 kilometers by road west of Sucre , the capital of the department.
The 976 kilometer long highway Ruta 6 leads through Sucre, which leads from the Bolivian lowlands on the border with Paraguay in the east via Padilla to Sucre and on to Oruro in the highlands. From Sucre, the road leads past the city's airport in a north-westerly direction, and after 22 kilometers a dirt road branches off from Ruta 6 in a south-westerly direction near the village of Punilla . After eighteen kilometers it reaches Chaunaca , where a side road branches off to Maragua , and after another seventeen kilometers it reaches Potolo .
population
In the past two decades, the population of the village initially decreased by about a fifth and has since increased by about the same amount:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 565 | census |
| 2001 | 451 | census |
| 2012 | 620 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Sucre 61.6 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
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 Chuquisaca 2001 (PDF; 4.4 MB)
Web links
- Raised relief map 6436-I of the Ancoma region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 3.17 MB)
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Sucre - General Maps No. 10101
- Municipio Sucre - detailed map and population data (PDF; 738 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )