Villa Rivero
| Villa Rivero | |||
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 Villa Rivero Church |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1858 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2735 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-1402-0102-5002 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 37 ′ S , 65 ° 49 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Punata Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Cochabamba |
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Villa Rivero (also: Pueblo Originario Aramasi or Muela ) is a town in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
location
Villa Rivero is the central place of the municipality of Villa Rivero in the province of Punata and is located on the southeast edge of the 490 km² fertile plateau of the Valle Alto . The village is located at an altitude of 2735 m, about ten kilometers from the edge of the Cordillera Oriental , which rises to over 3,600 m east of Villa Rivero and 4,100 m north of Punata .
geography
Villa Rivero is located in the transition area between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian lowlands in the east.
The mean average temperature of the region is just under 18 ° C (see climate diagram Cochabamba) and fluctuates only slightly between 14 ° C in June and July and 20 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is about 450 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with 90–110 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Villa Rivero is located 55 kilometers south-east of Cochabamba , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Cochabamba the paved national road Ruta 7 leads in a south-easterly direction 41 kilometers to San Benito , from there a dirt road six kilometers further south-east to Punata and another eight kilometers to Villa Rivero .
population
The population of the village has more than doubled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 753 | census |
| 2001 | 671 | census |
| 2013 | 1 858 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Villa Rivero 97.4 percent of the population speak Quechua .
Personalities
- Gualberto Villarroel López was born in Villa Rivero in 1908
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 2001 (PDF; 7.6 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Punata region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.3 MB)
- Topographic map of the Punata region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 8.9 MB)
- Municipio Villa Rivero - General Maps No. 31402
- Municipio Villa Rivero - detailed map and population data (PDF; 225 kB) (Spanish)
- Departamento Cochabamba - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 7.58 MB) ( Spanish )