Urmiri (Potosí)
| Urmiri | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Full name | Belen de Urmiri | ||
| Residents (state) | 839 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3696 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0104-0100-9035 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 23 ′ S , 66 ° 4 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Tomás Frías Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Urmiri |
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Urmiri (also: Belén de Urmiri ) is a town in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
location
Urmiri is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Urmiri in the province of Tomás Frías . The village is located at an altitude of 3696 m in the canyon of the Río Urmiri , which has cut 150 m deep into the plateau and supplies Urmiri with water as an alien river . The Río Urmiri flows a few kilometers below the village into the Río Pilcomayo , which flows downstream through the plains of the Gran Chaco and flows into the Río Paraguay .
geography
Urmiri is located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano in front of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central . The region's climate is semi-arid and has a typical time-of-day climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuation during the day is greater than that during the seasons.
The mean annual temperature of the region is around 13 ° C (see Urmiri climate diagram), the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate only slightly between just under 10 ° C in June and July and 15 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is a low 350 mm, the monthly precipitation averages between under 15 mm from April to October and only reaches 75 mm in January and February.
traffic
Urmiri is located at a distance of 76 kilometers by road northwest of Potosí , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Potosí, the Ruta 1 highway leads north via Tarapaya and Yocalla to Oruro and El Alto , the neighboring town of La Paz , and to Desaguadero on Lake Titicaca .
Nineteen kilometers northwest of Yocalla, a dirt road branches off the asphalt main road in a westerly direction, winds down to the Río Pilcomayo and reaches Urmiri after a total of twelve kilometers.
population
The population of the place has more than doubled in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no data | census |
| 2001 | 300 | census |
| 2012 | 839 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Urmiri 81.5 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; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Rio Mulato region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.12 MB)
- Municipio Urmiri - General Maps No. 50104
- Municipio Urmiri - detailed map and population data (PDF; 612 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )