Querarani

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Querarani
Basic data
Residents (state) 210 pop. (2012 census)
height 3864  m
Post Code 04-0102-0102-2001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 17 ° 40 ′  S , 67 ° 3 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 40 ′  S , 67 ° 3 ′  W
Querarani (Bolivia)
Querarani
Querarani
politics
Department Oruro
province Province of Cercado
climate
Oruro climate diagram
Oruro climate diagram

Querarani is a town in the Oruro department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Querarani is a village in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Caracollo in the province of Cercado . The settlement lies at an altitude of 3864  m on the right northern bank of the Río Millu Puncu , which flows to the southwest and which seeps into the plain of the Río Caracollo between Caracollo and Oruro .

geography

Querarani lies on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano in front of the Serranía de Sicasica ridge . The climate is characterized by a typical daytime climate , in which the temperature fluctuations between day and night are greater than between the seasons.

The annual average temperature of the region is around 10 ° C (see climate diagram Oruro), with the monthly average values ​​fluctuating between 6 ° C in June / July and 14 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is low 400 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to November with monthly values ​​below 20 mm and a short humidity period from December to February with about 80 mm per month.

Transport network

Querarani is 61 kilometers by road north of Oruro, the capital of the department.

From Oruro, the paved road Ruta 1 leads 41 kilometers north to Caracollo and from there another 200 kilometers to the cities of La Paz and El Alto . In Caracollo the Ruta 4 branches off to the east and after 19 kilometers reaches the village of Caihuasi . Shortly before Caihuasi, a dirt road branches off to the left in a north-easterly direction from Ruta 4 and reaches the town of Querarani after another two kilometers.

population

The population of the village has increased two and a half times over the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 81 census
2001 51 census
2012 210 census

Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Caracollo 65.5 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. INE social data Oruro 2001 (PDF; 6.2 MB)

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