Pulki

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Pulki
Basic data
Residents (state) 317 pop. (2012 census)
height 2764  m
Post Code 01-0102-0400-1001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 19 ° 14 ′  S , 65 ° 11 ′  W Coordinates: 19 ° 14 ′  S , 65 ° 11 ′  W
Pulki (Bolivia)
Pulki
Pulki
politics
Department Chuquisaca
province Oropeza Province
climate
Climate diagram Sucre
Climate diagram Sucre

Pulki (also Pulqui ) is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Pulki is the central place of the canton Pulqui in the municipality of Yotala in the province of Oropeza . The village is located at an altitude of 2764  m on the upper reaches of the Río Pulqui, which bears the name Río Santa Rosalia downstream and flows into the Río Pilcomayo .

geography

Pulki is located east of the Altiplano in the Bolivian Cordillera Central . The climate is a moderate altitude climate with a typical time-of-day climate , in which the temperature differences fluctuate more during the day than during the year.

The annual average temperature in Yotala is around 16 ° C (see climate diagram Sucre), the monthly average values ​​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

Pulki is located 31 kilometers by road south of Sucre , the capital of the department.

The 900-kilometer Ruta 5 highway runs through Sucre and leads from the Bolivian lowlands via Sucre and Potosí to the Chilean border in the west. Coming from Potosí in the direction of Sucre, the road crosses the Río Pilcomayo at Viña Pampa , and then follows the Río Santa Rosalia for sixteen kilometers and then the Río Pulqui upstream to Pulki .

population

The population of the village has decreased slightly over the past decade:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 348 census
2012 317 census

Due to the historically grown population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Yotala 94.2 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.

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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