Tacopaya
| Tacopaya | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 535 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3177 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-0602-0104-7001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 50 ′ S , 66 ° 32 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Arque Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Arque |
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Tacopaya is a town in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Tacopaya is the central place of the Municipio Tacopaya in the province of Arque . The village is located at an altitude of 3177 m on the right, southern bank of the Río Arque , which becomes the Río Grande in its further course .
geography
Tacopaya is located between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Cordillera Oriental in the east on the northern foothills of the Cordillera Central .
The climate of the region is semi-arid and a typical daytime climate , in which the daily temperature fluctuations are more pronounced than the temperature differences over the course of the year (see climate diagram Arque).
The annual average temperature is around 10–11 ° C, the monthly averages in June / July are only 6–7 ° C and the summer values in January / February are 13 ° C. The annual precipitation is about 600 mm, the rainiest month is January with 140 mm; from May to August there is a dry season with monthly precipitation of less than 10 mm.
Transport network
Tacopaya is located in a south-westerly direction 107 kilometers by road from Cochabamba , the capital of the department.
From Cochabamba the paved national road Ruta 4 leads in a westerly direction via the town of Quillacollo to Pongo and on to Caracollo , where it meets Ruta 1 , which crosses the Altiplano from north to south and connects to La Paz , Oruro and Potosí . 8 kilometers after Pongo, a country road branches off to the south, which after 27 kilometers reaches the village of Tacopaya. It continues to Bolívar and Sacaca in the Department of Potosí.
population
The population of the village has increased fourfold in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 137 | census |
| 2012 | 535 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Tacopaya 99.5 percent of the population speak Quechua .
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 La Paz 2001 (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Raised relief map of the Cochabamba region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.6 MB)
- Municipio Tacopaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 373 kB) (Spanish)
- Department of Cochabamba - Social data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 7.58 MB)