Quivi Quivi Media

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Quivi Quivi Media
Basic data
Residents (state) 494 pop. (2012 census)
height 3490  m
Post Code 05-0301-0803-0001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 19 ° 28 ′  S , 65 ° 27 ′  W Coordinates: 19 ° 28 ′  S , 65 ° 27 ′  W
Quivi Quivi Media (Bolivia)
Quivi Quivi Media
Quivi Quivi Media
politics
Department Potosí
province Province of Cornelio Saavedra
climate
Climate diagram Betanzos
Climate diagram Betanzos

Quivi Quivi Media (also: Quivi Quivi Bajo ) is a town in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Quivi Quivi Media is the second largest town in the canton of Tecoya in the municipality of Betanzos in the province of Cornelio Saavedra . The village is located at an altitude of 3490  m on the Río Ticoya, which flows downstream over the Río Jachcha Llullu into the Río Khona Paya, which is a tributary of the Río Miculpaya.

geography

Quivi Quivi Media is located between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The climate of the region is a typical time of day climate , in which the temperature fluctuations during the day are greater than during the year.

The annual average temperature in the valleys of 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

Quivi Quivi Media is located 41 kilometers by road east of Potosí , the capital of the department.

South of Quivi Quivi leads the national highway Ruta 5 , which leads from La Palizada in the Department of Santa Cruz via Sucre and Betanzos to Potosí, Ticatica , Pulacayo and Uyuni to the border with Chile . At the eastern entrance of Betanzos a road branches off to the north of the Ruta 5 and reaches over Tecoya after ten kilometers Quivi Quivi Media .

population

The population of the village has increased by more than a third in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 370 census
2010 494 census

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

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