Tacachi
| Tacachi | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1198 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2813 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-1404-0100-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 38 ′ S , 65 ° 48 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Punata Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Cochabamba |
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Tacachi is a town in the Cochabamba Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Tacachi is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Tacachi in the province of Punata and is located on the southeast edge of the 490 km² fertile plateau of the Valle Alto . The village is located at an altitude of 2813 m about ten kilometers from the edge of the Cordillera Oriental , which rises to over 3,600 m east of Villa Rivero and 4,100 m north of Punata .
geography
Tacachi lies in the transition area between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian lowlands in the east. The mean average temperature of the region is just under 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 around 450 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with 90 to 110 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Tacachi is 58 kilometers by road southeast of Cochabamba , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Cochabamba the paved highway Ruta 7 leads in a south-easterly direction 41 kilometers to San Benito , from there a dirt road over six kilometers further south-east to Punata and another eleven kilometers further via Villa Rivero to Tacachi .
population
The population of the village has almost tripled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 422 | census |
| 2001 | 750 | census |
| 2012 | 1 198 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Tacachi 95.3 percent of the population speak the Quechua 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; 8.0 MB)
Web links
- Municipio Tacachi - detailed map and population data (PDF; 179 kB) (Spanish)
- Department of Cochabamba - Social data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 7.58 MB)