Rincon de la Victoria (Bolivia)
| Rincon de la Victoria | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 216 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2199 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0501-1300-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 33 ′ S , 64 ° 50 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | Province of Eustaquio Méndez | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Tarija |
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Rincón de la Victoria is a town in the Tarija Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Rincón de la Victoria is the central place of the canton La Victoria in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) San Lorenzo in the province Eustaquio Méndez . Rincón de la Victoria is located at an altitude of 2199 m on the right, southeast bank of the Río Victoria , which flows nine kilometers downstream into the Río Nuevo Guadalquivir .
geography
Rincón de la Victoria is located on the southeastern edge of the plateau of the Bolivian Altiplano on the transition to the lowlands. Due to the inland location, the climate is dry for more than half of the year, but much less harsh than the plateau and has a typical daytime climate, in which the temperature fluctuations between day and night are usually significantly greater than the seasonal fluctuations.
The annual average temperature of the region is 19 ° C (see climate diagram Tarija) and fluctuates only slightly between 15 ° C in June / July and 22 ° C from December to February. The annual precipitation is about 550 mm, with a strongly pronounced dry season from April to October with monthly precipitation below 30 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with over 100 mm monthly precipitation.
population
The population of the village has decreased slightly over the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no data | census |
| 2001 | 257 | census |
| 2012 | 216 | census |
Transport network
Rincón de la Victoria is fourteen kilometers by road west of Tarija , the capital of the department of the same name.
The asphalted highway Ruta 1 leads through Tarija, which crosses the entire Bolivian highlands in a south-north direction from Bermejo in the south on the Argentine border to the Peruvian border at Desaguadero and, besides Tarija, also passes the metropolises Potosí , Oruro and El Alto . Five kilometers northwest of the center of Tarija, Ruta 1 crosses the Río Guadalquivir , and immediately beyond the bridge a dirt road branches off in a westerly direction and leads past La Victoria to Rincón de la Victoria .
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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 6629-III of the Tolomosa region1: 50,000 (PDF; 1.98 MB)
- Relief map of the Tarija region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.07 MB)
- Municipio Villa San Lorenzo - General Maps No. 60501
- Municipio Villa San Lorenzo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 514 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Tarija - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )