Tacobamba (Potosí)
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 View over Tacobamba |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 73 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3011 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0303-0113-8003 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 12 ′ S , 65 ° 33 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Province of Cornelio Saavedra | ||
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 Climate diagram Potosí |
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Tacobamba is a town in the Potosí department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Tacobamba is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Tacobamba in the province of Cornelio Saavedra . The town of Tacobamba is located at an altitude of 3011 m on the left bank of the Río Tacobamba , one of the headwaters of the Río Pilcomayo , which in turn is one of the tributaries of the Río Paraguay .
geography
Tacobamba is located east of the Altiplano in one of the valleys of the Bolivian Cordillera Cantral . The region has a typical time of day climate, i. This means that the temperature differences between day and night are greater than the temperature differences between the seasons.
The mean average temperature of the region is 11.5 ° C and fluctuates between almost 10 ° C in June / July and a good 14 ° C from October to March (see Potosí climate diagram). The annual precipitation is 500 mm, with a pronounced dry season with monthly precipitation below 10 mm from May to August, and monthly precipitation of more than 100 mm from December to February.
Transport network
Tacobamba is 94 kilometers by road northeast of Potosí , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Potosí, the paved road Ruta 5 leads in an easterly direction via Betanzos to Sucre . Twenty-four kilometers after the Potosí toll station, an unpaved road branches off from Ruta 5 in a northerly direction and crosses the Chaqui Mayu River . On its seventy kilometers long way to Tacobamba , it crosses pass heights of up to 4500 m .
population
The population of the village has decreased to about a fifth in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 347 | census |
| 2001 | 183 | census |
| 2012 | 73 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the Quechua population is predominant in Tacobamba , in the municipality of Tacobamba 99.5 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 Potosí 2001 (PDF; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Tacobamba - General Maps No. 50303
- Municipio Tacobamba - detailed map and population data (PDF; 601 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )