Tasapampa

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Tasapampa
Basic data
Residents (state) 416 pop. (2012 census)
height 2305  m
Post Code 01-0102-0102-0001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 19 ° 19 ′  S , 65 ° 16 ′  W Coordinates: 19 ° 19 ′  S , 65 ° 16 ′  W
Tasapampa (Bolivia)
Tasapampa
Tasapampa
politics
Department Chuquisaca
province Oropeza Province
climate
Climate diagram Tasapampa
Climate diagram Tasapampa

Tasapampa is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Tasapampa is the fourth largest city in the canton Yotala in Municipio Yotala in Oropeza Province . The village is located at an altitude of 2305  m on the left, northern bank of the Río Pilcomayo at the confluence of the Cachi Mayu and the Río Chakha.

geography

Tasapampa lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The climate of the region is a typical time of day climate , in which the temperature fluctuations during the day are greater than during the year.

The annual average temperature on the Río Pilcomayo is about 11 ° C (see climate diagram Tasapampa), the monthly values ​​fluctuate only slightly between 7 ° C in July and 12 to 13 ° C from October to March. The annual amount of precipitation is almost 500 mm, the months April to October are arid with monthly values ​​below 25 mm, only in January is a long-term average precipitation of 100 mm reached.

Transport network

Tasapampa is 61 kilometers by road south of Sucre , the capital of the department.

The 900 kilometer long national road Ruta 5 runs through Sucre, which leads from the Bolivian lowlands via Sucre and Potosí to the Chilean border in the west. From Sucre from the direction of Potosí, just before crossing the Río Pilcomayo, an unpaved and repeatedly erosion-prone country road branches off to the west from Ruta 5 and reaches Tasapampa after fourteen kilometers.

population

The population of the village has increased slightly in the past decade:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 379 census
2012 416 census

Due to the historically grown population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Yotala 94.2 percent of the population speak Quechua .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
  4. ↑ INE social data Chuquisaca 2001 (PDF; 4.4 MB)

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