Sacaca
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 Daybreak at Sacaca |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 2292 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 170 | ||
| height | 3675 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0701-0110-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 4 ′ S , 66 ° 23 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Alonso de Ibáñez province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Sacaca |
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Sacaca is a town in the Potosí department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Sacaca is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Sacaca in the province of Alonso de Ibáñez . The village is located at an altitude of 3675 m on the Chaquina Pampa plateau on the northeastern edge of the Cordillera Azanaques . The village of Sacaca is laid out in a basin framed by streams that drains to the Rio Lajuri , which in turn belongs to the river system of the Río Arque , one of the headwaters of the Bolivian Río Grande .
geography
Sacaca is located east of the Bolivian Altiplano in the northern part of the Cordillera Central . The climate of the region is a typical time of day climate , in which the mean daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the seasonal fluctuations.
The annual precipitation is about 550 mm (see climate diagram Sacaca), with a distinct dry season from April to October with less than 20 mm monthly precipitation, and a short wet season in January and February with precipitation well over 100 mm. The mean average temperature of the region is 9.5 ° C and fluctuates only slightly between 5 ° C in June / July and 12 ° C in November / December.
Transport network
Sacaca is located at a distance of 230 kilometers by road southeast of Oruro , the capital of the neighboring Oruro department .
From Oruro, the paved road Ruta 1 leads south 22 kilometers via Vinto to Machacamarquita , eight kilometers north of Machacamarca . In Machacamarquita, the route 6 branches off in a south-easterly direction and reaches the city of Llallagua after 79 kilometers via Huanuni and over pass heights of more than 4,500 m . From there the Ruta 6 leads another seven kilometers to the provincial capital Uncía . Here a dirt road branches off to the east, which leads in a north-easterly direction via Chayanta and Irupata to Colloma and on to Acasio . Behind Colloma, after 26 kilometers, a country road branches off to the north, which passes the village of Vila Vila and reaches Sacaca after another 39 kilometers .
The road then continues in a north-westerly direction to Bolívar in the Cochabamba department , from where there are road connections both west to Oruro and north-east to the Cochabamba valley .
population
The population of the village has increased by around half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 1 357 | census |
| 2001 | 1 619 | census |
| 2012 | 2 292 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Sacaca 84.5 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 (PDF; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Relief map Region Uncia 1: 250,000 (JPG; 8.3 MB)
- Municipio Sacaca - General Maps No. 50701
- Municipio Sacaca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 540 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )
