Yotala
Yotala | ||
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Yotala Church |
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 1522 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 2513 m | |
Post Code | 01-0102-0102-7001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 19 ° 10 ′ S , 65 ° 16 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Chuquisaca | |
province | Oropeza Province | |
climate | ||
Climate diagram Sucre |
Yotala is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Yotala is the central place of the district (Bolivian: Municipio ) Yotala in the province of Oropeza . The city is located at an altitude of 2513 m on the left bank of the Río Yotala , which flows into the Río Cachimayu after seven kilometers and continues into the Río Pilcomayo .
geography
Yotala is east of the Altiplano in the Bolivian Cordillera Central . The climate is a moderate altitude climate with a typical time-of-day climate , in which the temperature differences fluctuate more during the day than during the year.
The annual average temperature in Yotala is around 16 ° C (see climate diagram Sucre), the monthly average values fluctuate between 14 ° C in June / July and 17 ° C in October / November. The annual precipitation is about 700 mm and has five arid months from May to September with monthly values below 25 mm, and a significant humidity period from December to February with monthly precipitation between 125 and 150 mm.
Transport network
Yotala is 23 kilometers by road south of the departmental capital Sucre .
The 900-kilometer Ruta 5 highway runs through Yotala and leads from the Chilean border in the west via Potosí and Sucre into the Bolivian lowlands. The road between Yotala and Sucre is paved.
A single-track railway also runs through Yotala and travels the 171-kilometer route from Potosí to Sucre three times a week.
population
The population of the village has increased only slightly in the past two decades:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | 1,325 | census |
2001 | 1 538 | census |
2012 | 1 522 | census |
Due to the historically grown population development, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Yotala 94.2 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992 ( Memento from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ INE social data Chuquisaca 2001 ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.4 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)
- Municipio Yotala - General Maps No. 10102
- Municipio Yotala - detailed map and population data (PDF; 342 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )