Sotomayor (Chuquisaca)

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Sotomayor
Basic data
Residents (state) 729 pop. (2012 census)
height 2136  m
Post Code 01-0602-0200-6001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 19 ° 21 ′  S , 65 ° 0 ′  W Coordinates: 19 ° 21 ′  S , 65 ° 0 ′  W
Sotomayor (Bolivia)
Sotomayor
Sotomayor
politics
Department Chuquisaca
province Yamparáez Province
climate
Climate diagram Icla
Climate diagram Icla

Sotomayor is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Sotomayor is the central place of the canton Sotomayor in the municipality Yamparáez in the province Yamparáez . The village is located at an altitude of 2136  m at the mouth of the Río Jatun Khakha in the Río Pilcomayo .

geography

Sotomayor is located in the southern part of the Cordillera Central mountain range in the transition area to the Bolivian lowlands. The region has a typical daytime climate in which the temperature fluctuations during the day are greater than the average temperature fluctuations over the year.

The mean average temperature of the region is around 18 ° C (see climate diagram Icla), it is mild 15 ° C in June and July and reaches around 20 ° C from October to March. The annual precipitation is almost 600 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to August with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with 100 to 120 mm monthly precipitation.

traffic

Sotomayor is located at a distance of 64 kilometers by road southeast of Sucre , the capital of the department.

The 976 kilometer long highway Ruta 6 leads through Sucre, which leads from Machacamarca in the Oruro department in a south-easterly direction via Llallagua to Sucre and on via Yamparáez , Tarabuco and Zudáñez into the Bolivian lowlands to the border with Paraguay .

Ten kilometers east of Yamparáez, a country road branches off at Lavadero in a south-easterly direction from Ruta 6 and after a few kilometers follows the course of the Río Jatun Khakha to its mouth at Sotomayor .

population

The population of the village has increased slightly in the past decade:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 676 census
2012 729 census

Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Yamparáez 98.8 percent of the population 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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