Tasna Rosario
| Tasna Rosario | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 2309 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 169 | ||
| height | 4292 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0601-1111-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 20 ° 37 ′ S , 66 ° 11 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Nor Chichas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Tasna Rosario |
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Tasna Rosario is a mining settlement in the Potosí department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Tasna Rosario is the most populous municipality in the canton of Río Blanco in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Cotagaita in the province of Nor Chichas . The village is located at an altitude of 4292 m on the eastern edge of the volcanic cone of Cerro Tasna , which rises at 5056 m from the ridge of the Cordillera de Chichas and has rich ore deposits mainly of bismuth , tin , tungsten , copper and gold .
geography
Tasna Rosario is located on the southeastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano between the Cordillera de Chichas and the Cordillera de Lípez to the south . The climate in the region is a typical daytime climate , in which the mean temperature differences between day and night are more pronounced than between the seasons.
The annual average temperature of Tasna Rosario is 6 ° C (see climate diagram Tasna Rosario), the monthly values fluctuate between 2 ° C in June / July and 8 to 9 ° C in the summer months from November to March. The annual precipitation reaches only 200 mm, and while there is almost no precipitation for seven months, the summer precipitation with monthly values between 20 and 50 mm is hardly sufficient for significant plant growth - also due to the altitude.
Transport network
Tasna Rosario is located off the general road network of Bolivia at a distance of 323 kilometers by road southwest of Potosí , the capital of the department.
From Potosí, the national highway Ruta 5 leads in a south-westerly direction over 208 kilometers to Uyuni at the Salar de Uyuni salt lake . From there, the 197 kilometer long Ruta 21 leads via Cerdas and Atocha to Tupiza , where it meets Ruta 14 , which continues to Villazón on the border with Argentina .
In Cerdas , a dirt road branches off from Ruta 21 to the northeast and after 41 kilometers reaches Tasna Rosario and the nearby Tasna Buen Retiro .
population
The population of Tasna Rosario has been subject to strong fluctuations over the past two decades, depending on the economic revenues of the mines on Cerro Tasna:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 841 | census |
| 2001 | 1 243 | census |
| 2012 | 2 309 | census |
The population of the region is above all the indigenous people of Quechua on, 96.1 percent of residents in the municipality of Cotagaita speak the Quechua 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.
Web links
- Relief map of the Uyuni region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.19 MB)
- Municipio Cotagaita - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.54 MB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Cotagaita - General Maps No. 50601 ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )