Yamparáez

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Yamparáez
Basic data
Residents (state) 1124 pop. (2012 census)
height 3098  m
Post Code 01-0602-0103-2001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 19 ° 11 ′  S , 65 ° 7 ′  W Coordinates: 19 ° 11 ′  S , 65 ° 7 ′  W
Yamparáez (Bolivia)
Yamparáez
Yamparáez
politics
Department Chuquisaca
province Yamparáez Province
climate
Climate diagram Tarabuco
Climate diagram Tarabuco

Yamparáez is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Yamparáez is the seat of the administration of the Municipio Yamparáez in the province of the same name Yamparáez and is located in the ridge of the Bolivian Cordillera Central at an altitude of 3,098  m .

geography

Yamparáez lies between the Altiplano and the Bolivian lowlands in the ridge of the Bolivian Cordillera Central . The climate is a cool, moderate mountain climate with a typical time of day climate , in which the temperature differences fluctuate more strongly during the day than during the year.

The annual average temperature in the region is around 9 ° C (see Tarabuco climate diagram), the monthly averages fluctuate between 6 ° C in July and 11 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is 600 mm and has four arid months from May to August with monthly values ​​below 10 mm, and a significant humidity period from December to February with monthly precipitation between 100 and 125 mm.

traffic

Yamparáez is 28 kilometers by road southeast of the departmental capital Sucre .

The village is located on the 976 kilometer long highway Ruta 6 , which connects Sucre with the Bolivian lowlands and the local metropolis of Santa Cruz . The highway through Yamparáez is paved both to the west to Sucre and to the east to Tarabuco , 39 kilometers away , on the further way to the east it is unpaved.

Yamparáez is also connected to Sucre and Tarabuco by a single-track railway line, but this line is no longer in service.

population

The city's population has increased by around 40 percent over the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 839 census
2001 903 census
2012 1 124 census

Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Yamparáez 98.8 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992 ( Memento from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ INE social data Chuquisaca 2001 ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.4 MB)

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