Tarabuquillo
| Tarabuquillo | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 343 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2276 m | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 21 ′ S , 64 ° 29 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Tomina Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Tomina |
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Tarabuquillo is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Tarabuquillo is a municipality in the southern part of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Tomina in the province of Tomina . The village is located at an altitude of 2276 m on the Río Tarabuquillo , which flows a few kilometers downstream into the Río Tomina , which leads north to the Río Grande . The mountain ranges near Tarabuquillo, which run from north to south, reach heights of up to over 2700 m.
geography
Tarabuquillo lies in the transition area between the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central and the Bolivian lowlands. The climate of the region is semi-humid and a typical daytime climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuations between day and night are more pronounced than between the seasons.
The average annual temperature in the region is around 19 ° C (see Tomina climate diagram) and fluctuates only slightly between 16 ° C in June and July and almost 21 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is about 600 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to September with monthly precipitation below 25 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with 100 to 125 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Tarabuquillo is 178 kilometers by road southeast of Sucre , the capital of the department.
From Sucre, the 976 kilometer long highway Ruta 6 leads in a south-easterly direction via Zudáñez , Tarabuco and Yamparáez to Tomina and on to Padilla and from there into the Bolivian lowlands.
Eight kilometers south of Tomina at the confluence of the Río Tarabuquillo in the Río Tomina , a dirt road branches off in a southerly direction, follows the Río Tarabuquillo upwards and after fifteen kilometers reaches the town of Tarabuquillo . The road then continues south over a pass height of 2,420 m to Sopachuy and Azurduy .
population
The population of the village has increased by more than a third in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 255 | census |
| 2001 | 300 | census |
| 2012 | 343 | census |
Due to the historical population development, a significant proportion of indigenous people live in the region , 94.0 percent of the inhabitants speak Quechua in the municipality of Sopachuy .
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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.
Web links
- Municipio Tomina - General Maps No. 10402
- Municipio Tomina - detailed map and population data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 546 kB)
- Departamento Chuquisaca - Social data of the municipalities ( Spanish ) (PDF; 4.21 MB)