Ticala
| Ticala | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 63 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2980 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-1101-0308-0001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 46 ′ S , 65 ° 21 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | José María Linares Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Betanzos |
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Ticala is a town in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Ticala is a town in the canton of Miculpaya in the municipality of Puna in the province of José María Linares . The village is located at an altitude of 2980 m on the right, eastern bank of the Río Sayatala at the confluence of the Quebrada Colila and the Quebrada Caririrumayu. Downstream, the Río Sayatala bears the name Río Ticala Pata and flows into the Río Miculpaya after three kilometers.
geography
Ticala is located at the southern end of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central . The climate of the region is a typical daytime climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuation between day and night is more pronounced than between summer and winter.
The annual average temperature in the region is around 17 ° C (see Betanzo's climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 14 ° C in June / July and 19 ° C from November to January. The annual rainfall is almost 500 mm, the months May to September are arid with monthly values below 15 mm, only in January a rainfall of 100 mm is reached.
Transport network
Ticala is located at a distance of 83 km by road southeast of Potosí , the capital of the department.
From there, the Ruta 5 road leads east to Betanzos and on to the capital Sucre . Ten kilometers after Betanzos, directly after crossing the Río Khoña Paya, a country road branches off in a southerly direction and leads downriver via El Palomar and Huatina to Miculpaya . In Huatina the road towards Ticala remains on the northern bank of the Río Miculpaya and only crosses it directly north of Ticala.
population
The population of the village has decreased by about a quarter in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 87 | census |
| 2012 | 63 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Puna 98.3 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Sons and daughters of the village
- José María Linares (1808–1861), President of Bolivia from 1857 to 1861
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 2001 (PDF; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Raised relief map of the Miculpaya region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 1.82 MB)
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Puna - General Maps No. 51101
- Municipio Puna - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.11 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )