Queñahuayco
| Queñahuayco | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 250 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2606 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0201-0300-3002 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 56 ′ S , 64 ° 58 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | Province of Aniceto Arce | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Padcaya |
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Queñahuayco (also: Queña Huaico ) is a town in the Tarija Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Queñahuayco is the second largest town in the canton of Camacho in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Padcaya in the province of Aniceto Arce . The village is a scattered settlement , its core lies at an altitude of 2606 m on the left bank of the Río Camacho , which flows 53 kilometers further downstream past the town of Valle de Concepción (formerly: Uriondo ) and flows into the Río Guadalquivir , which further below the Name Río Tarija .
geography
Queñahuayco is located in southern Bolivia a few kilometers east of the biological reserve of the Cordillera de Sama in the transition to the Bolivian Chaco lowlands.
The mean average temperature of the region is 13.5 ° C (see Padcaya climate diagram), the monthly averages fluctuate between 9 ° C in June and July and 17 ° C in December and January. The annual precipitation is 630 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with monthly precipitation well over 100 mm.
Transport network
Queñahuayco is 79 kilometers by road south of Tarija , the capital of the department.
From the Tarija, the paved road Ruta 1 leads southeast towards the cities of Padcaya and Bermejo . After seventeen kilometers from the main road, the asphalted route 45 branches off to the west, after five kilometers it crosses the valley of the Río Guadalquivir and after three kilometers it reaches the village of Valle de Concepción . From there it continues as a dirt road in a south-westerly direction and reaches the town of Chaguaya via Chocloca and Juntas . Here the asphalted Ruta 45 continues in a south-easterly direction, a dirt road remains on the left, western bank of the Río Camacho and then meets the still-planned Ruta 28 in Camacho , which continues upriver past La Huerta and Queñahuayco and then to the west Towards Villazón .
population
The population of the village has declined to barely more than half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 475 | census |
| 2001 | 339 | census |
| 2012 | 250 | census |
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.
Web links
- Relief map of the Tarija region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.07 MB)
- Municipio Padcaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 670 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Padcaya - General Maps No. 60201
- Departamento Tarija - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )