Vilacaya
| Vilacaya | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 194 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3227 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-1101-0501-7001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 20 ° 0 ′ S , 65 ° 29 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | José María Linares Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Betanzos |
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Vilacaya is a town in the Potosí Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Vilacaya is the central place of the canton Vilacaya in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Puna in the province of José María Linares . The village is located at an altitude of 3227 m on the Río Vitichi , which flows south of the village Vitichi into the Río Tumusla .
geography
Vilacaya lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The climate of the region is a typical time of day climate , in which the temperature fluctuations during the day are greater than during the year.
The annual average temperature in the valleys of the region is around 17 ° C (see Betanzo's climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 14 ° C in June / July and 19 ° C from November to January. The annual rainfall is almost 500 mm, the months May to September are arid with monthly values below 15 mm, only in January a rainfall of 100 mm is reached.
Transport network
Vilacaya is located at a distance of 129 kilometers by road south of Potosí , the capital of the department.
From Potosí, the paved road Ruta 1 leads from Lake Titicaca in the north to the Argentine border in the south and crosses the cities of El Alto , Oruro and Potosí . From Potosí it leads over 37 kilometers in a southerly direction to Cuchu Ingenio , where route 14 branches off in a southerly direction and leads via Vitichi , Tumusla and Cotagaita to Villazón . Fourteen kilometers before Vitichi, the Ruta 14 reaches the Río Vitichi , which flows south , where a dirt road branches off to the north and reaches Vilacaya after twelve kilometers.
population
The town's population has decreased by around a third in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 304 | census |
| 2001 | 291 | census |
| 2012 | 194 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Puna 98.3 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Personalities
Walter Pérez Villamonte (1936–2018), Catholic Bishop of Potosí from 1998 to 2009 , was born in Vilacaya.
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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 2001 (PDF; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Puna - General Maps No. 51101
- Municipio Puna - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.11 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )