Tahua (Potosí)

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Tahua
View of the Tunupa volcano and Tahua
View of the Tunupa volcano and Tahua
Basic data
Residents (state) 365 pop. (2012 census)
height 3686  m
Post Code 05-1402-0100-6001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 19 ° 53 ′  S , 67 ° 42 ′  W Coordinates: 19 ° 53 ′  S , 67 ° 42 ′  W
Tahua (Bolivia)
Tahua
Tahua
politics
Department Potosí
province Daniel Campos Province
climate
Climate diagram Salinas de Garcí Mendoza
Climate diagram Salinas de Garcí Mendoza

Tahua is a town in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Tahua is the central place of the Municipio Tahua in the province of Daniel Campos . The location situated at an altitude of 3686  m at the foot of stratovolcano Tunupa (5432 m). Tahua located on the north bank of the salt lake Salar de Uyuni , the largest salt lake in the world, at one of the periodically flowing streams, flowing from the Tunupa to the salt lake back.

geography

Tahua is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The climate is arid and a typical daytime climate , in which the fluctuations in mean daytime temperatures are greater than the seasonal fluctuations.

The annual precipitation is only 200 mm (see climate diagram Salinas de Garcí Mendoza), with a pronounced dry season from April to November with only sporadic precipitation; only in the summer from December to March there is significant rainfall between 20 and 70 mm per month. The mean average temperature of the region is around 4.5 ° C and fluctuates only slightly between 0 ° C in July and 7 ° C in January.

Transport network

Tahua is located at a distance of 380 kilometers by road west of Potosí , the capital of the department.

From Potosí, the national road Ruta 1 leads over a distance of 203 kilometers in a north-westerly direction via Yocalla to Challapata . In Challapata, the Ruta 30 branches off to the southwest and after thirty kilometers leads via Santiago de Huari to the Río Laca Jahuira . Immediately after crossing the river bed, an unpaved road branches off in a westerly direction, reaching Salinas de Garcí Mendoza after 115 kilometers via Santuario de Quillacas and Bengal Vinto . From here it's another 32 kilometers south to Tahua.

population

The population of the village has increased by around half in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 229 census
2001 265 census
2012 365 census

Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Tahua 68 percent of the population speak Aymara .

Infrastructure

With the support of the Dutch foundation Window to the World , a boarding school was opened in Tahua in November 2010, which started operations in March 2011 after the summer holidays.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. INE social data 2001 (PDF file; 5.87 MB)
  5. Window to the World - Homepage ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.windowtotheworld.nl
  6. Tahua Project: Bolivian Boarding School ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( English / Dutch ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tahua-bolivia.com

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