Viluyo
| Viluyo | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 354 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3875 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0701-0100-4012 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 15 ′ S , 66 ° 53 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Pantaleón Dalence Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Huanuni |
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Viluyo is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Viluyo is the second largest town in the canton of Huanuni in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Huanuni in the province of Pantaleón Dalence . The village is located at an altitude of 3875 m on the right, northern bank of the Río Huanuni , which flows from the village of Huanuni to the northwest into the Uru-Uru Lake .
geography
Viluyo lies on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano and is bordered to the east by the high mountain ranges of the Cordillera Central . The vegetation of the region is that of the puna , the climate is cold and dry and a typical time of day climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the seasons.
The annual average temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C, the monthly values fluctuate between 4 ° C in June / July and 11 ° C from November to March (see climate diagram Huanuni). The annual precipitation is only 350 mm, from April to October there is a pronounced dry season with monthly values of less than 10 mm, only from December to March there is significant monthly precipitation between 55 and 85 mm.
Transport network
Viluyo is 42 kilometers by road south of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
The 976 kilometer long highway Ruta 6 runs through Viluyo, which begins a few kilometers northwest near Sora Sora and leads east via Sucre to the Brazilian border.
At Sora Sora, route 6 branches off from 1,215 kilometers of paved route 1 , which crosses the Altiplano from north to south and continues from Desaguadero (Bolivia) on the Peruvian border via El Alto and Oruro in the north to Potosí and Tarija in the south and ends at Bermejo on the border with Paraguay .
population
The population of the village has increased by more than half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 218 | census |
| 2001 | 190 | census |
| 2012 | 354 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Huanuni 69.8 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 (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map Region Uncia 1: 250,000 (JPG; 8.3 MB)
- Municipio Machacamarca - General Maps No. 40702
- Municipio Machacamarca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 249 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )
