Puca Puca

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Puca Puca
Basic data
Residents (state) 372 pop. (2012 census)
height 3139  m
Post Code 01-0601-0102-7001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 19 ° 12 ′  S , 64 ° 52 ′  W Coordinates: 19 ° 12 ′  S , 64 ° 52 ′  W
Puca Puca (Bolivia)
Puca Puca
Puca Puca
politics
Department Chuquisaca
province Yamparáez Province
climate
Climate diagram Tarabuco
Climate diagram Tarabuco

Puca Puca is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Puca Puca is a neighboring town of the rural town of Tarabuco in the municipality of Tarabuco in the province of Yamparáez . The village is located at an altitude of 3139  m at the mouth of the Río Pisili in the Río Jatun Mayu (also: Río Tarabuco ).

geography

Puca Puca is located between the Altiplano and the Bolivian lowlands in the ridge of the Bolivian Cordillera Central . The climate is a cool, moderate mountain climate with a typical time of day climate , in which the temperature differences fluctuate more strongly during the day than during the year.

The annual average temperature in Tarabuco is around 9 ° C (see Tarabuco climate diagram), the monthly averages fluctuate between 6 ° C in July and 11 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is 600 mm and has four arid months from May to August with monthly values ​​below 10 mm, and a significant humidity period from December to February with monthly precipitation between 100 and 125 mm.

Transport network

Puca Puca is located 73 kilometers by road east of Sucre , the capital of the Chuquisaca department.

The 976 kilometers long national road Ruta 6 , which connects Sucre with the Bolivian lowlands and the border with Paraguay , runs through Tarabuco . From Tarabuco, a country road branches off in a south-easterly direction from Ruta 6 and reaches Puca Puca after six kilometers.

From Puca Puca the road leads south down the Río Tarabuco and continues to the villages of Pampa Lupiara and San José de Paredon .

population

The population of the village has decreased significantly in the past decade:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 449 census
2012 372 census

Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Tarabuco 98.6 percent of the population speak Quechua .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
  4. ↑ INE social data Chuquisaca 2001 (PDF; 4.4 MB)

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