Tinguipaya

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Tinguipaya
Basic data
Residents (state) 628 pop. (2012 census)
height 3410  m
Post Code 05-0102-0103-2001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 19 ° 13 ′  S , 65 ° 49 ′  W Coordinates: 19 ° 13 ′  S , 65 ° 49 ′  W
Tinguipaya (Bolivia)
Tinguipaya
Tinguipaya
politics
Department Potosí
province Tomás Frías Province
climate
Climate diagram Tinguipaya
Climate diagram Tinguipaya

Tinguipaya (also: Tinquipaya or Gabriel Vera ) is a town in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Tinguipaya is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Tinguipaya in the province of Tomás Frías . The village is located at an altitude of 3410  m on the right bank of the Río Tinguipaya , which flows into the Río Pilcomayo , a tributary of the Río Paraguay and Río Paraná .

geography

Tinguipaya is located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano in front of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central . The climate is the typical daytime climate of the cold tropics , in which the mean fluctuations in temperatures during the day are more pronounced than during the course of the seasons.

The annual average temperature of the region is around 7 ° C (see Tinguipaya climate diagram), the monthly averages fluctuate only slightly between just under 4 ° C in June / July and just under 9 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is about 370 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 15 mm in the months April to September and a maximum of about 80 mm in January and February.

Transport network

Tinguipaya is 45 kilometers by road northwest of Potosí , the capital of the department of the same name.

From Potosí, the Ruta 1 trunk road leads north via Tinguipaya to Poopó , Oruro and El Alto , the neighboring town of La Paz , and to Desaguadero on Lake Titicaca .

population

The population of the village has increased by around a third in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 461 census
2001 499 census
2012 628 census

Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Tinguipaya 99.3 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.

Gabriel Vera

Gabriel Vera, whose name the village bears as a second name, was the first mining engineer in the Potosí area in the 1930s.

Year after year, his daughter Josefina Vera-Murillo traveled to the Bolivian mining settlements to teach the miners and their families the Spanish language. She later published the book “Hacia Mi Porvenir”, which was addressed to the Spanish-speaking people in these settlements and which is still part of the standard in every community library.

Gabriel's granddaughters continue to support families in the Bolivian mining settlements:

  • Ximena Murillo developed the humanitarian project "Empowering Women in Mining Communities of Bolivia" at the University of St. Thomas (Houston, Texas);
  • Carla Murillo is the head of ODPS Bolivia, the local organization in Bolivia that implements the project's ideas on site;
  • Sonia Murillo is a pediatrician and, through her clinic, sponsors medical supplies for children in the Bolivian mining settlements.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. ↑ INE social data Potosí 2001 (PDF file; 5.2 MB)
  5. ↑ Empowering Women in Bolivia
  6. ^ Clinton Global Initiative University

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