Totoral
| Totoral | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1128 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3905 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0602-0500-1014 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 30 ′ S , 66 ° 52 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Poopó Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Antequera |
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Totoral is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Totoral is the central place of the canton Totoral in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Pazña in the province Poopó . The village is situated at an altitude of 3905 m in the upper reaches of the River Antequera that the later in the eastern part Poopó Lake empties, an approximately 1,300 km² large salt lake south of the city of Oruro .
geography
Totoral is located on the Bolivian Altiplano on the western edge of the Cordillera Azanaques , a section of the Cordillera Central .
The mean annual temperature of the region is around 6 ° C (see Antequera climate diagram), the annual rainfall is 325 mm. The region has a distinct daytime climate, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly between 1 ° C in July and a good 8 ° C from November to March. The monthly precipitation is below 10 mm in the months of April to October and only falls from December to March in a significant amount of 50 to 85 mm.
traffic
Totoral is 94 kilometers by road south of Oruro, the capital of the department of the same name.
From Desaguadero on Lake Titicaca , the asphalted highway Ruta 1 crosses the Bolivian highlands in a north-south direction. It leads via El Alto and Oruro to Pazña and from there on in a southerly direction via Potosí and Tarija to Bermejo on the Bolivian- Argentine border.
In Pazña a dirt road branches off in a north-easterly direction into the Antequera Valley and leads to the towns of Avicaya , Totoral , Campamento Bolívar and Antequera .
population
The population of the village has halved in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 2,393 | census |
| 2001 | 1 013 | census |
| 2012 | 1 128 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Pazña 66.5 percent of the population speak the Quechua language .
Cañadón Peñas
Cañadón Peñas ( cañadón = field in the valley that is flooded when it rains; peña = rock, mountain ) is the name for a development project in the canton of Peñas that has been supported by German World Hunger Aid since around 2005 as one of fifteen " Millennium Villages " . In joint workshops, the impoverished inhabitants of the Peñas Valley, together with experts from Welthungerhilfe, have drawn up a five-year plan, the improvements of which are to be implemented in four areas: nutrition, the economy, education, and a say for women. These goals are to be achieved through improvements in animal husbandry, the establishment of small cheese factories and the establishment of schools with lunch. With this project, Welthungerhilfe is not only supporting the 400 families in the Peñas Valley, but also the 13,000 rural residents of the Pazña and Antequera region, whose schools are involved in the project.
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 Oruro 2001 (PDF; 6.2 MB)
- ↑ Welthungerhilfe ( Memento of the original from January 9, 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.
Web links
- Raised relief map Region Uncia 1: 250,000 (JPEG; 8.22 MB)
- Municipio Pazña - detailed map and population data (PDF; 331 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )
