Pucará (Vallegrande)
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.jpg) View of Pucará |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 707 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2451 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0805-0101-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 43 ′ S , 64 ° 11 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Vallegrande Province | ||
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 Climate diagram Pucará |
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Pucará is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Pucará is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Pucará in the province of Vallegrande and is located at an altitude of 2451 m, fifteen kilometers east of the Bolivian Río Grande , 1,500 m above the river and separated from it by the ridge of the Serranía Río Grande .
geography
Pucará is located in the valley of the Río Cañada in the southwestern foothills of the Cordillera Oriental . The mean annual temperature of the region is 14 ° C, the annual precipitation is 650 mm (see climate diagram Pucará), the region has a distinct daytime climate.
The monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 11 ° C in July and 16 ° C from November to January. The region has a dry season with monthly values of less than 20 mm from May to September, the maximum precipitation values are between 100 and 125 mm in the summer months from December to February.
Transport network
Pucará is 275 kilometers by road southwest of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz the highway Ruta 9 leads a few kilometers to El Carmen , and from there the Ruta 7 via La Angostura and Samaipata to Mataral . There the route 22 branches off in a southerly direction, which leads via Trigal and Vallegrande to Guadalupe . In Guadalupe , the Ruta 38 (the so-called " Ruta del Che ") branches off in a south-westerly direction and leads past Santa Ana in 38 km to Pucará . The road then continues in a southerly direction to the valley of the Río Grande , crosses the river on a bridge and temporarily ends as Ruta 38 at the small town of Santa Rosa .
The Ruta del Che leads from Pucara a few kilometers further south to the village of La Higuera , where the Argentine - Cuban revolutionary and guerrilla fighter Ernesto "Che" Guevara was shot by members of the Bolivian army on October 9, 1967 .
population
The population of the place has increased by more than half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 454 | census |
| 2001 | 795 | census |
| 2012 | 707 | census |
Due to the population distribution that has evolved over time, the region has no significant concentration of indigenous populations. The only notable indigenous group in the village is the Quechua population, in the municipality of Pucará 1.8 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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 (PDF; 4.4 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Vallegrande region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 8.75 MB)
- Municipio Pucará - General Maps No. 70805
- Municipio Pucará - detailed map and population data (PDF; 677 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )