Quelcata
| Quelcata | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 762 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3796 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-1101-0100-6008 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 34 ′ S , 67 ° 29 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Tomas Barrón Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Caracollo climate diagram |
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Quelcata is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Quelcata is the second largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Eucaliptus in the province of Tomas Barrón . Quelcata is located at an altitude of 3796 m a few kilometers east of the Río Desaguadero , which connects Lake Titicaca in the north with Lake Poopó to the south .
geography
Quelcata is located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andean mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Serranía de Sicasica as part of the Cordillera Central in the east. The climate is a typical time of day climate in which the temperature fluctuations during the day are greater than during the year.
The average annual temperature of the region is around 8 ° C (see Caracollo climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate between 4 ° C in June / July and 11 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is less than 400 mm and is characterized by an extended dry season from April to October with monthly values below 15 mm; only in the summer months from December to March fall significant precipitation of 50 to 90 mm.
Transport network
Quelcata is 83 kilometers northwest of Oruro , the capital of the department.
The Ruta 1 highway runs through Oruro and runs through the entire Altiplano in a north-south direction, from Lake Titicaca via the conurbations of El Alto / La Paz , Oruro, Potosí and Tarija to Bermejo on the border with Argentina .
On the route from El Alto to Oruro, 74 kilometers north of Oruro in the village of Panduro, a dirt road branches off from Ruta 1 in a south-westerly direction, reaches Quelcata after nine kilometers and leads to the town of Eucaliptus for another five kilometers .
population
The population of the village has decreased by around a quarter in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 007 | census |
| 2001 | 881 | census |
| 2012 | 762 | census |
Due to the history of settlement, the region has a high proportion of indigenous population, in the Municipio Eucalitus 82 percent of the population speak the Aymara 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.
Web links
- Topographic map of the Eucaliptus region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 9.4 MB)
- Relief map Corocoro region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio Eucaliptus - General Maps No. 41101
- Municipio Eucaliptus - detailed map and population data (PDF; 226 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )