Toco (Cochabamba)
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| Residents (state) | 1450 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2740 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-0802-0103-0001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 38 ′ S , 65 ° 56 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Germán Jordán Province | ||
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 Climate diagram Cochabamba |
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Toco (also: Toko ) is a town in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Toco is the central location of the Municipio Toko in the province of Germán Jordán and is located on the 490 km² fertile plateau of the Valle Alto . The village is located at an altitude of 2740 m on the right bank of the Río Cliza , about 20 kilometers from the edge of the Cordillera Oriental , which rises to over 4,100 m near San Benito, northeast of Toco .
geography
Cliza lies in the transition area between the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central and the Bolivian lowlands. The mean average temperature of the region is around 18 ° C (see climate diagram Cochabamba) and fluctuates only slightly between 14 ° C in June / July and 20 ° C in October / November. The annual precipitation is only around 450 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with 90 to 120 mm monthly precipitation.
traffic
Toco is 45 kilometers by road southeast of Cochabamba , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Cochabamba, the paved highway Ruta 7 leads in a south-easterly direction 33 kilometers to Tolata , from there a dirt road over eight kilometers further south to Cliza and another four kilometers to Toco.
population
The population of the village has increased by around half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 956 | census |
| 2001 | 827 | census |
| 2012 | 1 450 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Toko 97.3 percent of the population 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.
- ↑ INE social data Cochabamba 2001 (PDF file; 7.58 MB)
Web links
- Relief map Punata 1: 100,000 (PDF; 9.12 MB)
- Municipio Toko - detailed map and population data (PDF; 223 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department of Cochabamba - Social data (PDF; 7.58 MB) ( Spanish )