Yunchará
| Yunchará | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 354 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3577 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0402-0100-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 49 ′ S , 65 ° 14 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | José María Avilés Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Yunchará |
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Yunchará is a town in the Tarija Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The river oasis Yunchará is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Yunchará in the province of José María Avilés . The village is located at an altitude of 3577 m in the Cordillera de Sama Biological Reserve between the north-south mountain ranges of the Sierra San Roque and the Cordillera de Sama .
geography
Yunchará is located in the south-eastern part of the barren plateau of the Bolivian Altiplano . The climate is cool and dry because of the inland location and is characterized by a typical daytime climate, in which the temperature fluctuations between day and night are usually significantly greater than the seasonal fluctuations.
The annual average temperature is 11 ° C and fluctuates only slightly between a good 6 ° C in June / July and a good 14 ° C from November to March (see climate diagram). The annual precipitation is just under 400 mm, with a strongly pronounced dry season from April to October with monthly precipitation below 15 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with 80 to 95 mm monthly precipitation.
population
The population of the village has increased almost fourfold in the past two decades:
- 1992 : 93 inhabitants (census)
- 2001 : 138 inhabitants (census)
- 2012 : 354 inhabitants (census)
Transport network
Yunchará is 106 kilometers by road from Tarija , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Tarija, the Ruta 1 road leads 52 kilometers west, crosses the Cordillera de Sama and continues to Potosí . To the north of Iscayachi , a dirt road branches off in a south-westerly direction, crosses the Pampa de Tajzara with the salt lakes Laguna Tajzara and Laguna Grande , and then turns just under twenty kilometers south of Laguna Tajzara in a westerly direction and reaches Yunchará after 54 kilometers . Beyond Yunchará, the road leads 58 kilometers further west to Ruta 14 , which connects Villazón on the Argentine border with the provincial capital Tupiza .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 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.
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2001 ( Memento of the original dated February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2012 ( Memento of the original of 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.
Web links
- Relief map of the Tarija region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.07 MB)
- Municipio Yunchará - General Maps No. 60402
- Municipio Yunchará - detailed map and population data (PDF; 400 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Tarija - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )