Rancho sauce

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Rancho sauce
Basic data
Residents (state) 1574 pop. (2012 census)
height 2569  m
Post Code 03-0902-0300-9001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 17 ° 25 ′  S , 66 ° 21 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 25 ′  S , 66 ° 21 ′  W
Rancho Sauce (Bolivia)
Rancho sauce
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politics
Department Cochabamba
province Quillacollo Province
climate
Climate diagram Cochabamba
Climate diagram Cochabamba

Sauce Rancho is a village in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Sauce Rancho is the sixth largest town in the canton of Mallco Rancho in the district (Bolivian: Municipio ) Sipe Sipe in the province of Quillacollo . The village is located at the western end of the plain of Cochabamba at an altitude of 2569  m one and a half kilometers northeast of the Río Viloma shortly before its confluence with the Río Rocha , the main source of the Bolivian Río Grande .

geography

Sauce Rancho is located between the Bolivian Cordillera Central and the Cordillera Oriental in the transition area to the Bolivian lowlands.

The mean average temperature of the region is around 18 ° C (see climate diagram Cochabamba) and fluctuates only slightly between 14 ° C in June and July and 20 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is about 450 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a rain maximum in January with 120 mm monthly precipitation.

Transport network

Sauce Rancho is 20 kilometers west of Cochabamba , the capital of the department.

From Cochabamba, the paved road Ruta 4 leads west over the town of Quillacollo past Vinto towards Sipe Sipe . Seven kilometers southwest of the city center of Quillacollo, the street Mallco Chapi branches off the main road to the southwest . At the first intersection, in the center of Mallco Chapi , a road branches off in a north-westerly direction and after a kilometer you reach Sauce Rancho .

population

The population of the village has increased by more than a third in the past decade:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 1 154 census
2012 1 574 census

Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Sipe Sipe 83.9 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
  4. INE social data 2001 (PDF file; 11.6 MB)

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