Sausal (sucre)

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Sausal
Basic data
Residents (state) 67 pop. (2012 census)
height 1560  m
Post Code 01-0101-1101-1001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 18 ° 37 ′  S , 65 ° 12 ′  W Coordinates: 18 ° 37 ′  S , 65 ° 12 ′  W
Sausal (Bolivia)
Sausal
Sausal
politics
Department Chuquisaca
province Oropeza Province
climate
Climate diagram Poroma
Climate diagram Poroma

Sausal (also Sauzal ) is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Sausal is a village in the canton of Chuqui Chuqui , one of fourteen cantons of the Municipio Sucre in the province of Oropeza . The village is located at an altitude of 1560  m at the mouth of the Río Chico in the Bolivian Río Grande , a tributary to the Río Mamoré .

geography

Sausal lies between the Altiplano and the Bolivian lowlands in the ridge of the Bolivian Cordillera Central . The climate is a cool, moderate mountain climate with a typical time of day climate , in which the temperature differences fluctuate more strongly during the day than during the year.

The average temperature of the region is around 17 ° C (see Poroma climate diagram) and fluctuates over the course of the year between almost 14 ° C in July and 19 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is a good 600 mm, with the monthly precipitation in the half-yearly dry season from April to October being below 30 mm, while in the southern summer from December to February monthly values ​​between 120 and 150 mm are reached.

Transport network

Sausal is 87 kilometers by road north of Sucre , the capital of the department.

By Sucre leading highway Ruta 5 , which by the Chilean border in the west Uyuni and Potosi to Sucre leads and continue east across Chaco , Chuqui Chuqui , Surima and Bella Vista in the lowlands of Santa Cruz , where they at La Palizada on which hits Ruta 7 .

A good sixteen kilometers behind Bella Vista, an unpaved road branches off to the left from Ruta 5, overcomes the more than fifty meter difference in altitude between the highway and the river bed for one kilometer, crosses the river on a one hundred meter long bridge and follows again on the left side of the river one kilometer the Río Chico to Sausal at the confluence with the Río Grande.

population

The population of the village has decreased significantly in the past decade:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 93 census
2012 67 census

Due to the historically grown population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, despite the municipal function of the municipality in the capital, 61.6 percent of the population in the municipality of Sucre still speak the Quechua language.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
  4. ↑ INE social data Chuquisaca 2001 (PDF; 4.4 MB)

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