Primero de Mayo (Carrasco)
| Primero de Mayo | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 545 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 207 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-1205-0304-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 52 ′ S , 64 ° 59 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Carrasco Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Villa Tunari |
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Primero de Mayo (" May Day ") is a town in the Cochabamba department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Primero de Mayo is a village in the canton of Puerto Villarroel in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) of Puerto Villarroel in the province of Carrasco . Primero de Mayo is located at an altitude of 207 m about six kilometers north of the Río Mariposas , which flows northeast to the Río Ivirgarzama , a tributary of the Río Ichilo .
geography
Primero de Mayo is located in the Bolivian lowlands on the northeastern foothills of the Cordillera Oriental .
The region has an average annual temperature of 24 ° C (see climate diagram Villa Tunari), the monthly averages are between about 26 ° C from October to December and 20 ° C in June and July. The average annual precipitation is more than 1000 mm, the wet season extends from November to February, the months of July and August are rather dry with less than 50 mm.
Transport network
Primero de Mayo is 230 kilometers by road northeast of Cochabamba , the capital of the department.
The 1,657-kilometer Ruta 4 highway runs through Cochabamba and runs from Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border in the east across the country to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border . From Cochabamba you can reach Senda Cinco via Villa Tunari and Chimoré , the highway then continues via Ivirgarzama to Warnes and Santa Cruz .
A dirt road branches off in Senda Cinco and reaches the village of Primero de Mayo seventeen kilometers further north .
population
The population of the village has more than doubled in the past decade alone:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 201 | census |
| 2012 | 545 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Puerto Villarroel 83.5 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
- ↑ INE social data (PDF; 8.0 MB)
Web links
- Satellite map of Bolivia from 1: 2,000 GeoBolivia
- Relief map of the Puerto Villarroel region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 9.7 MB)
- Relief map of the Punata region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.12 MB)
- Municipio Puerto Villarroel - General Maps No. 31205
- Municipio Puerto Villarroel - detailed map and population data (PDF; 603 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Cochabamba - Social data of the municipalities ( Spanish ) (PDF; 7.58 MB)