Telamayu

Telamayu
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Basic data
Residents (state)	1021 pop. (2012 census)
height	3681  m
Post Code	05-0802-0100-5001
Telephone code	(+591)
Coordinates	20 ° 57 ′  S , 66 ° 13 ′  W Coordinates: 20 ° 57 ′  S , 66 ° 13 ′  W
Telamayu
politics
Department	Potosí
province	Sur Chichas Province
climate
Climate diagram Atocha

Telamayu is a town in the Potosí department in the southern part of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Telamayu is neighboring town of Atocha in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Atocha in the province of Sur Chichas . The village is located directly south of Atocha at an altitude of 3681  m on the rarely used railway line between Oruro and Uyuni in the north and Tupiza in the south. The Río Allyta flows through Telamayu and flows into the Río Atocha north of Atocha and belongs to the river system of the Río Pilcomayo . The river is about 70 meters deep in the adjacent hill country, the village of Telamayu is located in the floodplain at the mouth of the Khory Mayu in the Río Allyta and only in a few cases extends into the side valleys.

geography

Telamayu is located on the Bolivian Altiplano in the northern foothills of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera de Lípez . The climate of the region is arid and has a clear time-of-day climate, in which the daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the temperature fluctuations over the course of the year.

The mean annual temperature in the region is 11 ° C (see climate diagram Atocha), with a monthly average of 6 to 7 ° C in June / July and 13-14 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is a low 200 mm, with the months April to October being almost free of precipitation. Significant precipitation falls only from November to March, with a maximum of around 50 mm monthly precipitation in January.

Transport network

Telamayu is located at a distance of 305 kilometers by road southwest of Potosí , the capital of the department.

From Potosí, the national highway Ruta 5 runs in a south-westerly direction for 208 kilometers to Uyuni at the Salar de Uyuni salt lake . The city of Uyuni is connected to the city of Tupiza by the 197 kilometers long Ruta 21 , which runs about halfway through Atocha and Telamayu .

economy

Between 1972 and 1980 a bismuth smelter worked in Telamayu but had to cease operations due to economic difficulties. The current Bolivian government invested a sum of 1 million US dollars in November 2008 to restart the work of the smelter, although there are great doubts about the smelter's economic viability.
Bismuth is used for metal alloys, more recently also as a substitute for lead, bismuth components are used in the cosmetics and medical industries. The bismuth used in the Telamayu hut has a purity of 99 percent and is mainly exported to Russia .

population

The population of Telamayu has fluctuated significantly over the past two decades, depending on the economic situation:

year	Residents	source
1992	1 050	census
2001	793	census
2012	1 021	census

Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, 55.4 percent of the 6+ year olds in the municipality of Atocha speak the Quechua language.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Study recommends closing Telamayu smelter. In: Business News Americas. July 1, 2009 ( english )
2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
3. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
4. ↑ 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 Atocha - General Maps No. 50802
• Sud Chichas - detailed map and population data (PDF; 625 kB) ( Spanish )
• Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )