Villa Montenegro
| Villa Montenegro | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 2159 pop. (2001 census) | ||
| height | 2546 m | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 27 ′ S , 66 ° 20 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Quillacollo Province | ||
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 Climate diagram Cochabamba |
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Villa Montenegro was a country town in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Villa Montenegro was the second largest town in the district (Bolivian: Municipio ) Sipe Sipe in the province of Quillacollo . Villa Montenegro is located at the southwestern end of the Cochabamba plain at an altitude of 2546 m on the right western bank of the Río Rocha , the main source of the Bolivian Río Grande . With the census of 2012, Villa Montenegro is no longer listed as an independent village, but is now part of the city of Sipe Sipe .
geography
Villa Montenegro is located between the Bolivian Cordillera Central and the Cordillera Oriental in the transition area to the Bolivian lowlands.
The mean average temperature of the region is around 18 ° C (see climate diagram Cochabamba) and fluctuates only slightly between 14 ° C in June and July and 20 ° C in November. The average annual precipitation is around 450 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a maximum rainfall in January with 120 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Villa Montenegro is located 25 kilometers from Cochabamba , the capital of the department.
From Cochabamba, the paved highway Ruta 4 leads west via the town of Quillacollo and Vinto to Villa Montenegro and via Suticollo to Caracollo , where it crosses with Ruta 1 . The Ruta 1 crosses the Altiplano from north to south, thus providing connections to the cities of La Paz , Oruro and Potosí ago.
population
The population of the town had almost doubled in the last decade of the 20th century:
- 1992 : 1,212 inhabitants ( census )
- 2001 : 2,159 inhabitants (census)
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Sipe Sipe 83.9 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2001
- ↑ INE social data 2001 (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Municipio Sipe Sipe - General Maps No. 30902
- Municipio Sipe Sipe - detailed map and population data (PDF; 440 kB) (Spanish)
- Department of Cochabamba - Social data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 7.58 MB)