Villa Abecia
| Villa Abecia | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1211 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2311 m | ||
| Post Code | 01-0901-0100-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 20 ° 58 ′ S , 65 ° 14 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Sud Cinti Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Camargo |
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Villa Abecia (also short Abecia ) (another name: Camataqui ) is a village in Chuquisaca in the South American Andes -State Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Villa Abecia is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Villa Abecia and seat of the administration of the province Sud Cinti . The village lies on the border with the Tarija department at an altitude of 2311 m on the northern foothills of the Sierra San Roque in a side valley of the Río Pilaya , a right tributary of the Río Pilcomayo .
geography
Villa Abecia is located on the southwestern foothills of the Bolivian Cordillera Central , between the Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian lowlands in the east. The climate is a cool, moderate mountain climate with a typical time of day climate , in which the mean temperature differences fluctuate more strongly during the day than during the year.
The annual average temperature in the region is just under 14 ° C (see Camargo climate diagram), the monthly averages fluctuate between just under 10 ° C in June / July and 16 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is 400 mm and has seven arid months from April to October with monthly values below 20 mm, significant monthly precipitation only falls from December to February with values of 80 to 90 mm each.
Transport network
Villa Abecia is located at a distance of 137 kilometers by road northwest of Tarija , the capital of the department of the same name.
Villa Abecia is located on the completely asphalted, 1215-kilometer long highway Ruta 1 , which leads from Lake Titicaca in the north to the Argentine border in the south.
population
The population of the place has increased by more than a third in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 730 | census |
| 2001 | 733 | census |
| 2013 | 1 022 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a certain proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Camataquí 17.0 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 Chuquisaca 2001 (PDF; 4.4 MB)
Web links
- Municipio Villa Abecia - General Maps No. 10901
- Municipio Villa Abecia - detailed map and population data (PDF; 355 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - Social data of the municipalities (PDF 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )