Surima
Surima | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 792 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 1733 m | |
Post Code | 01-0101-1101-2001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 18 ° 47 ′ S , 65 ° 8 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Chuquisaca | |
province | Oropeza Province | |
climate | ||
Climate diagram Poroma |
Surima is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Surima is the largest town in the canton of Chuqui Chuqui in the municipality of Sucre in the province of Oropeza . The village is located at an altitude of 1733 m on the right, eastern bank of the Río Chico , which flows downstream after another 22 kilometers into the Bolivian Río Grande .
geography
Surima 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
Surima is located 63 kilometers by road east of Sucre , the capital of the department.
The highway Ruta 5 runs through Sucre, which leads from the Chilean border in the west via Uyuni and Potosí to Sucre and further east via Chaco , Chuqui Chuqui and Surima into the lowlands of Santa Cruz , where it joins the Ruta 7 at La Palizada meets.
population
The population of the village has increased significantly in the past decade:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | no detailed data | census |
2001 | 495 | census |
2012 | 792 | 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
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
- ↑ INE social data Chuquisaca 2001 (PDF; 4.4 MB)
Web links
- Relief map 6537-I of the Chuqui Chuqui region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 3.31 MB)
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Sucre - General Maps No. 10101
- Municipio Sucre - detailed map and population data (PDF; 738 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )