Tapyta
| Tapyta | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic data | |||
| Full name | Comunidad Tapyta | ||
| Residents (state) | 418 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 855 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0702-0111-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 35 ′ S , 63 ° 13 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Cordillera Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Abapó climate diagram |
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Tapyta (also Tapuata ) is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Tapyta is a village in the canton of Saipurú in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Charagua in the province of Cordillera . The village lies at an altitude of 855 m between the Voranden chains, which rise to about 1000 m west of Tapyta , and the wetland of the Bañados de Izozog in the east.
geography
Tapyta is in the area of the tropical climate, the six-month wet season extends from November to April and the dry season from May to October.
The annual average temperature is 23 ° C (see Abapó climate diagram), with 17 to 18 ° C from June to July and over 26 ° C from November to December. The annual precipitation is a good 800 mm, the wettest months are January and February with about 130 mm and the driest months July and August with 10 to 20 mm.
Transport network
Tapyta is located at a distance of 244 kilometers by road south of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Santa Cruz, the paved road Ruta 9 leads south via Cabezas to Abapó on the banks of the Río Grande and on via Ipitá and Villamontes to Yacuiba on the Bolivian border with Argentina . Five kilometers south of Abapó, the route 36 branches off in an easterly direction , which is asphalted to San Isidro del Espino and then reaches Tapyta via Igmiri and Saipurú after 97 kilometers .
population
The population of the village has increased by around a quarter in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 343 | census |
| 2012 | 418 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Guaraní population, in the Municipio Charagua 48.8 percent of the population speak the Guaraní 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 Santa Cruz 2001 (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Charagua region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 6.23 MB)
- Municipio Charagua - General Maps No. 70702
- Municipio Charagua - detailed map and population data (PDF; 4.28 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )