Villa Pacheco
| Villa Pacheco | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 141 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2536 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0801-1000-8001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 42 ′ S , 65 ° 18 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Sur Chichas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Tupiza |
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Villa Pacheco is a village in the Potosí department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Villa Pacheco is the central place of the canton Villa Pacheco in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Tupiza in the province of Sur Chichas . The village is located at an altitude of 2536 m in the fertile lowland of the Río San Juan del Oro on its left bank, about a hundred kilometers before it joins the Río Tumusla .
geography
Villa Pacheco is located in the southern part of the barren plateau of the Bolivian Altiplano . Because of the inland location, the climate is cool and dry and a typical daytime climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations between day and night are usually significantly greater than the seasonal fluctuations.
The annual average temperature is 13 ° C (see climate diagram Tupiza) and fluctuates only slightly between 8 ° C in June / July and 16 ° C from December to February. The annual precipitation is only about 300 mm, with a strongly pronounced dry season from April to October with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and an only weakly pronounced humidity period from December to February with 60–80 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Villa Pacheco is 328 kilometers south of Potosí , the capital of the department of the same name, and 145 kilometers from Tarija , the capital of the Tarija department .
From Potosí, the Ruta 1 highway, coming from Lake Titicaca , heads south-east and reaches the town of Cuchu Ingenio after 37 kilometers . Here the Ruta 14 branches off , which reaches the town of Tupiza after 224 kilometers via Tumusla , Cotagaita and Hornillos . From there, Ruta 14 continues via Suipacha and Yuruma past Mojo and ends in Villazón on the Argentine border.
Ten kilometers south of Mojo, an unpaved road branches off to the east, which leads via Tojo and Yunchará to Tarija. In Tojo another dirt road branches off to the north, which runs along the Río San Juan and after about 19 km reaches Villa Pacheco.
population
The population of the village has halved in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 281 | census |
| 2001 | 165 | census |
| 2012 | 141 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Tupiza 56 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; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Camargo region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.45 MB)
- Municipio Tupiza - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.09 MB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Tupiza - General Maps No. 50801
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )