Puna (Bolivia)
| Puna | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1525 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3280 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-1101-0101-9001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 48 ′ S , 65 ° 30 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | José María Linares Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Betanzos |
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Puna is a town in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Puna is the seat of the administration of the province of José María Linares and the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Puna . The village is located at an altitude of 3280 m on the Río Puna, a tributary in the upper reaches of the Río Pilcomayo .
geography
Puna is located at the southern end of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central . The climate of the region is a typical daytime climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuation between day and night is more pronounced than between summer and winter.
The annual average temperature in the region is around 17 ° C (see Betanzo's climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 14 ° C in June / July and 19 ° C from November to January. The annual rainfall is almost 500 mm, the months May to September are arid with monthly values below 15 mm, only in January a rainfall of 100 mm is reached.
Transport network
Puna is located at a distance of 64 kilometers by road southeast of Potosí , the capital of the department.
From Potosí, the 1,215-kilometer-long asphalt road Ruta 1 leads south via Cuchu Ingenio and Tres Cruces to Tarija and Bermejo on the Argentine border. At Belén a country road branches off to the northeast, which reaches Puna after eleven kilometers .
population
The population of the village has increased by around a quarter in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 187 | census |
| 2001 | 1 209 | census |
| 2012 | 1 525 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Puna 98.3 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 ( 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 2001 (PDF; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Puna - General Maps No. 51101
- Municipio Puna - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.11 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )