Tiguipa (Tarija)
| Tiguipa | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 785 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 541 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0303-0103-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 0 ′ S , 63 ° 20 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | Gran Chaco Province | ||
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 Climate diagram Villamontes |
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Tiguipa (also: Tiguipa Estación ) is a town in the Tarija Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Tiguipa is the second largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Villamontes in the Gran Chaco province . The village is located at an altitude of 541 m about 15 kilometers east of the Voranden chain of Serranía Aguaragüe , which runs from Boyuibe in the north via Villamontes to Yacuiba in the south and reaches heights of up to 800 m at Tiguipa. Tiguipa is surrounded by pastureland and arable land for a radius of 1 to 2 km, followed by extensive deciduous forests.
geography
Tiguipa is located in the humid tropics on the northwestern edge of the Bolivian Chaco .
The annual average temperature of the region is 25 ° C (see Villamontes climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate between almost 20 ° C in June and July and 29 ° C in December and January. The climate is semi-humid and has a clear dry season from May to September, the annual precipitation is less than 700 mm, from December to March monthly values of 100 to 140 mm are reached.
Transport network
Tiguipa is located at a distance of 590 kilometers by road southeast of Sucre , the capital of the Chuquisaca department.
Sucre from the 976 km long leads highway Ruta 6 on Zudañez , Padilla , Monteagudo , Lagunillas and Camiri to Boyuibe north of Macharetí . Here the Ruta 6 crosses the 1,631-kilometer Ruta 9 from Guayaramerin on the Brazilian border via Santa Cruz to Yacuiba on the Argentine border. From Boyuibe it is 58 kilometers on Route 9 via Macharetí and Tiguipa (Chuquisaca) to Camatindi , where a dirt road branches off to the east and reaches Tiguipa after eight kilometers.
Tiguipa is the station on the railway line that runs from Santa Cruz in the north to Yacuiba on the Argentine border.
population
The town's population has decreased by around a third in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 277 | census |
| 2001 | 830 | census |
| 2012 | 785 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a certain proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Villamiontes 5.5 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
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.
- ↑ INE social data Chuquisaca 2001 (PDF file; 4.22 MB)
Web links
- Municipio Villamontes - General Maps No. 60303
- Municipio Villamontes - detailed map and population data (PDF; 896 kB) (Spanish)
- Departamento Tarija - Social data of the municipalities ( Spanish ) (PDF; 3.05 MB)