Sabaya
| Sabaya | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 486 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3707 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0901-0100-1003 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 1 ′ S , 68 ° 22 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Atahuallpa Province | ||
| Homepage of Sabaya | |||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Sabaya |
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Sabaya is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Sabaya is the administrative seat of the province of Sabaya and the central place of the Municipio Sabaya . The village is located at an altitude of 3707 m in the river valley of the Río Sabaya on the eastern slope of Cerro Pumari (4787 m). 25 km southeast of Sabaya is the salt lake Salar de Coipasa 20 kilometers to the southwest of the stratovolcano Tata Sabaya (5385 m).
geography
The climate in the region is semi-arid , the annual precipitation is only 200 mm (see climate diagram Sabaya). From April to November there is a dry season with monthly values of less than 10 mm of precipitation, the wet season in summer is short and the rain is not very productive. The annual average temperature is almost 7 ° C without significant fluctuations in the course of the year, but with strong daily fluctuations in temperature and frequent changes in frost .
The vegetation in the region corresponds to the semi-arid puna . It is treeless and mainly consists of thorn bushes , grasses , succulents and cushion plants . It is used economically as a llama , alpaca and sheep pasture .
Transport network
Sabaya is 189 kilometers by road southwest of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Oruro, the largely unpaved national road Ruta 12 leads 189 kilometers in a south-westerly direction via Ancaravi and Huachacalla to Sabaya and on to Pisiga Bolívar on the Chilean border.
population
The population of the village has almost doubled over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 260 | census |
| 2001 | 573 | census |
| 2013 | 486 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Sabaya 62.9 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carola Dörrie, Soil and Vegetation in the Huachacalla Area (PDF file; 21.84 MB)
- ^ 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 (PDF file; 11.63 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Salinas de Garci-Mendoza region (PDF; 10.44 MB)
- Municipio Sabaya - General Maps No. 40901
- Municipio Sabaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 807 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )