Torotoro
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 View over Torotoro |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1304 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2705 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0502-0101-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 8 ′ S , 65 ° 46 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Charcas Province | ||
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 Climate diagram Torotoro |
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Torotoro (or: Toro Toro ) is a town in the Potosí Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Torotoro is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Toro Toro in the northern part of the province of Charcas . The village is located at an altitude of 2705 m, 140 km south of Cochabamba in the center of the Torotoro National Park .
history
Toro Toro is in the late colonial period of mestizos - internal migrants from Cochabamba was founded. On November 21, 1883 he was granted the status of "Municipio". The municipality of Torotoro has an area of 1,169 km² and a population of 10,535 inhabitants (2001 census), which corresponds to a population density of 9 inhabitants per km².
geography
Torotoro lies between the two Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Central and Cordillera Oriental .
The climate is pleasantly balanced due to the altitude, but very dry for large parts of the year. The mean average temperature of the region is around 18 ° C (see climate diagram), the monthly mean fluctuates only slightly between 14.5 ° C in July and 20 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is about 560 mm, with a clearly pronounced dry season from April to October with monthly precipitation below 25 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with well over 100 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Torotoro is 160 kilometers north of Potosí , the capital of the department, as the crow flies . The village can only be reached on a gravel road via Estancia Sucusuma on the Río Caine from the direction of Cochabamba.
population
The population of the village has increased several times over in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 258 | census |
| 2001 | 676 | census |
| 2012 | 1 304 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Toro Toro 99.1 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 Potosí 2001 (PDF; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Aiquile region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.35 MB)
- Municipio Toro Toro - General Maps No. 50502
- Municipio Toro Toro - detailed map and population data (PDF; 911 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )