La Parroquia
La Parroquia | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 147 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 2736 m | |
Post Code | 06-0502-0900-4001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 21 ° 16 ′ S , 65 ° 3 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Tarija | |
province | Province of Eustaquio Méndez | |
climate | ||
Climate diagram Las Carreras |
La Parroquia (also Tomayapo ) is a town in the Tarija Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
La Parroquia is the central place of the canton Tomayapo in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) El Puente in the province Eustaquio Méndez . The village is located at an altitude of 2736 m at the confluence of the Quebrada Lluscayo in the Río Tomayapo , a right tributary of the Río San Juan del Oro .
geography
La Parroquia is located in the south-eastern part of the barren plateau of the Bolivian Altiplano . Due to the inland location, the climate is semi-arid and characterized by a typical daytime climate, in which the mean temperature fluctuations between day and night are usually significantly greater than the seasonal fluctuations. The pronounced dry season lasts more than half of the year.
The mean average temperature of the region is around 18 ° C (see climate diagram Las Carreras) and fluctuates over the course of the year between almost 14 ° C in June / July and 21 ° C in January. The annual precipitation is hardly more than 400 mm, whereby the monthly precipitation in the dry season is less than 20 mm and only in the southern winter reaches values of almost 100 mm.
Transport network
La Parroquia is located at a distance of 75 kilometers by road northwest of Tarija , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Tarija the highway Ruta 1 leads north, pierces the Cordillera de Sama in a north-westerly direction and leads via the town of San Lorencito to Cieneguillas and on to Camargo , Padcoyo and Potosí . Four kilometers west of Cieneguillas, a dirt road branches off in a north-westerly direction from Ruta 1 and reaches La Parroquia after another nine kilometers.
population
The population of the village has decreased over the past decade:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | no detailed data | census |
2001 | 172 | census |
2012 | 147 | census |
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
Web links
- Relief map 6530-II of the Las Carreras region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.39 MB)
- Relief map of the Tarija region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.07 MB)
- Municipio El Puente - General Maps No. 60502
- Municipio El Puente - detailed map and population data (PDF; 466 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Tarija - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )