Sighualaca
| Sighualaca | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 172 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3719 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0801-0802-3046 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 37 ′ S , 67 ° 24 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Ladislao Cabrera Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Salinas de Garcí Mendoza |
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Sighualaca is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Sighualaca is the third largest town in the canton of Villa Esperanza in the municipality of Salinas de Garcí Mendoza in the province of Ladislao Cabrera . The village is located at an altitude of 3719 m directly south of Cerro Japunta (4310 m), ten kilometers north of the Salar de Uyuni salt lake .
geography
Sighualaca is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east.
The climate is arid , the annual precipitation is only 200 mm (see climate diagram Salinas de Garcí Mendoza), with a pronounced dry season from April to November with only sporadic precipitation; only in the summer from December to March there is significant rainfall between 20 and 70 mm per month. The mean average temperature of the region is around 4.5 ° C and fluctuates only slightly between 0 ° C in July and 7 ° C in January.
Transport network
Sighualaca is located at a distance of 247 kilometers by road southwest of Oruro , the capital of the department.
From Oruro, the Ruta 1 highway runs for 116 kilometers in a southerly direction through the cities of Machacamarca and Poopó to Challapata . In Challapata, the Ruta 30 branches off to the southwest and after 30 kilometers leads via Santiago de Huari to the Río Laca Jahuira . Immediately after crossing the river bed, the “Carretera 603” road branches off in a westerly direction, which leads via Santuario de Quillacas and Bengal Vinto to Tambo Tambillo and on to Salinas de Garcí Mendoza .
Ten kilometers southwest of Tambo Tambillo the road passes the volcanic crater of Jayu Quta , and after another five kilometers a dirt road branches off in a southerly direction and continues via Chalhua to Catuyo and Puqui . From Chalhua it is another ten kilometers in a south-westerly direction to Sighualaca .
population
The population of the village has more than doubled in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 76 | census |
| 2012 | 172 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Salinas de Garcí Mendoza 85.3 percent of the population speak the Aymara 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 2001 (PDF; 6.2 MB)
Web links
- Aspectos Históricos y Socioculturales Marka Villa Esperanza June 2016 ( Spanish )
- Relief map of the Salinas de Garci-Mendoza region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.44 MB)
- Relief map of the Puqui region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 919 kB)
- Municipio Salinas de Garcí Mendoza - General Maps No. 40801
- Municipio Salinas de Garcí Mendoza - detailed map and population data (PDF; 806 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )