Yotala

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Yotala
Yotala Church
Yotala Church
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 Coordinates: 19 ° 10 ′  S , 65 ° 16 ′  W
Yotala (Bolivia)
Yotala
Yotala
politics
Department Chuquisaca
province Oropeza Province
climate
Climate diagram Sucre
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
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

  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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