San Cristóbal (Minera)
| San Cristóbal (Minera) | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1214 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3892 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0901-0200-4037 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 9 ′ S , 67 ° 13 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Nor Lípez Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram San Cristóbal |
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San Cristóbal (Minera) is a mining settlement in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
San Cristóbal (Minera) is a settlement that belongs to the San Cristóbal mine in the canton of San Cristóbal in the municipality of Colcha "K" in the province of Nor Lípez . The village is located at an altitude of 3892 m about 50 kilometers south of the salt lake Salar de Uyuni on the edge of the Gran Pampa Pelada , a wide plain north of the Cordillera de Lípez .
geography
San Cristóbal (Minera) is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera de Lípez . The region's climate is semi-arid and characterized by a pronounced time-of-day climate.
The mean average temperature of the region is 7.7 ° C (see climate diagram San Cristóbal) and fluctuates only slightly between 3 ° C in June and July and about 10 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is only 100 mm, whereby the months April to November are almost without precipitation; Significant precipitation falls only in the months of January and February with 30 mm per month each.
According to the climate classification , the climate of San Cristóbal (Minera) is dry and cold ( BWk ) .
Transport network
San Cristóbal (Minera) is located at a distance of 295 kilometers by road southwest of Potosí , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Potosí, the asphalted highway Ruta 5 leads 198 kilometers in a south-westerly direction to Uyuni , from there Ruta 701 continues to the south-west and after 61 kilometers crosses the Río Grande de Uyuni and after another 27 kilometers it reaches the village of San Cristóbal . From here to the mining settlement of San Cristóbal it is another nine kilometers.
population
In 1999, the population, including the entire original town of San Cristóbal, was relocated six kilometers to the south-east to make way for large-scale mining of silver, zinc and lead.
The "San Cristóbal (Minera)" settlement has now arisen on the site of the mine:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no mining settlement yet | census |
| 2001 | 47 | census |
| 2012 | 1 214 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Colcha "K" 93.0 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Multilateralism, Population Displacement & Resettlement in San Cristóbal Silver Mines, Bolivia ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2012 ( Memento of the original of 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 2001 (PDF; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the San Pablo de Lípez region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 4.48 MB)
- Municipio Colcha "K" - detailed map and population data (PDF; 2.99 MB) (Spanish)
- Municipio Colcha "K" - general maps no. 50901
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities ( Spanish ) (PDF; 5.23 MB)