Ravelo (Potosí)
| Ravelo | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1826 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3232 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0402-0102-7001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 48 ′ S , 65 ° 31 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Chayanta Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Sucre |
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Ravelo is a town in the Potosí department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Ravelo is the central place of the canton Ravelo in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Ravelo in the province Chayanta . The village is located at an altitude of 3232 m on the right bank of the Río Ravelo , which is called " Río Roque " downstream and flows to the Río Pilcomayo .
geography
Ravelo is east of the Altiplano in the Bolivian Cordillera Central . The climate is a moderate altitude climate and a typical time of day climate , in which the average temperature fluctuation is greater during the day than during the year.
The annual average temperature in the region is around 16 ° C (see climate diagram Sucre), the monthly averages fluctuate between 14 ° C in June / July and 17 ° C in October / November. The annual precipitation is about 700 mm and has five arid months from May to September with monthly values below 25 mm, and a significant humidity period from December to February with monthly precipitation between 125 and 150 mm.
Transport network
Ravelo lies at a distance of 229 kilometers by road north of Potosí , the capital of the department.
The 898-kilometer Ruta 5 highway runs through Potosí and crosses the Bolivian Altiplano from southwest to northeast. From Potosí it leads via Betanzos , Millares and Yotala to Sucre and on through the department of Cochabamba into the lowland department of Santa Cruz .
In Sucre, the highway crosses Route 6 , which reaches Ravelo sixty kilometers further north and continues to Oruro via Uncía and Llallagua .
population
The population of the village has increased by around a third in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 031 | census |
| 2001 | 1 119 | census |
| 2012 | 1 826 | census |
Due to the historically grown population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Ravelo 79 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 Potosí 2001 (PDF; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Aiquile region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.35 MB)
- Municipio Ravelo - General Maps No. 50402
- Municipio Ravelo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 840 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )