Pucará (Charcas)

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Pucará
Basic data
Residents (state) 1039 pop. (2012 census)
height 3039  m
Post Code 01-0704-0171-5001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 20 ° 40 ′  S , 64 ° 51 ′  W Coordinates: 20 ° 40 ′  S , 64 ° 51 ′  W
Pucará (Bolivia)
Pucará
Pucará
politics
Department Chuquisaca
province Nor Cinti Province
climate
Culpina climate diagram
Culpina climate diagram

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

Location in the vicinity

Pucará is the second largest town in the canton of Villa Charcas in the municipality of Villa Charcas in the province of Nor Cinti . The place is located at an altitude of 3039  m on the left, eastern bank of the Río Villa Charcas , which belongs to the river system of the Río Pilcomayo via the Río Inca Huasi and the Río Pilaya .

geography

Pucará is located on the northern edge of the mountain region of the Cordillera de Tajsara o Tarachaca in the semi-arid transition area between the semi-humid mountain forests of the eastern mountain ranges of Bolivia and the arid Altiplano .

The annual rainfall varies between 350 and 550 mm and occurs mainly in the months from November to March; the winter months from May to August are largely free of precipitation (see Culpina climate diagram). The monthly average temperatures are between almost 20 ° C in December and 5 to 8 ° C in June / July.

population

The population of Pucará has increased by more than half in the past decade:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 646 census
2012 1,039 census

Traffic situation

Pucará is 382 kilometers by road south of Sucre , the capital of the department.

The 898-kilometer Ruta 5 highway runs through Sucre and leads from the Cordillera Oriental across the Altiplano to the Chilean border. From Sucre, the road leads 169 kilometers in a south-westerly direction to Potosí , where it meets the north-south running Ruta 1 . From there it is another 122 kilometers on Ruta 1 to Padcoyo . From there, an unpaved road leads eastwards via Ocurí to Palacio Tambo , and in Ocurí a road branches off in a southerly direction and leads via Malliri and Chiñimayu to Huancarani Alto ; the road climbs on its 45-kilometer route between Chiñimayu and Huancarani Alto to heights of just over 4000 meters.

Two kilometers south of Huancarani Alto, a country road branches off to the east and reaches the village of Palcapata after another two kilometers. At the end of the village the road leads south along the Río Villa Charcas, leaves the river after one and a half kilometers in an easterly direction and after another one and a half kilometers meets the road that leads from the northeast from Santa Elena directly to Pucará .

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

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