Yunguyo (littoral)
| Yunguyo | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 162 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3735 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0504-0100-1026 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 51 ′ S , 68 ° 19 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Litoral Province | ||
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 Climate diagram Sabaya |
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Yunguyo is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Yunguyo is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Yunguyo del Litoral in the province of Litoral . The village is located at an altitude of 3735 m on the southern slope of the 4702 m high Pacha Kkollu Quimsa Misa , a Quaternary stratovolcano , which juts out of the vast plains of the Bolivian Altiplano together with the 4792 m high Inca Camacho in the northwest of the salt lake Salar de Coipasa .
geography
The climate of the region is semi-arid and has a short rainy season in summer, the annual precipitation is low 200 mm. The annual average temperature is almost 7 ° C without significant fluctuations in the course of the year, but with strong daily fluctuations in temperature and frequent changes in frost .
The vegetation in the Yunguyo area corresponds to the semi-arid puna . It is treeless and mainly consists of thorn bushes , grasses , succulents and cushion plants . It is used economically as a llama , alpaca and sheep pasture .
Transport network
Yunguyo is located 172 kilometers by road southwest of Oruro , the capital of the department.
From Oruro the dirt road Ruta 12 leads via Toledo and Ancaravi to Huachacalla and on via Pisiga on the Chilean border to Colchane in Chile . A few kilometers southwest of Huachacalla is the village of Esmeralda , from here a dirt road leads west and after four kilometers it reaches Yunguyo .
population
The population of the village has almost doubled over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 92 | census |
| 2001 | 108 | census |
| 2012 | 162 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Cruz de Machacamarca 67.6 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
Individual evidence
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 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.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 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.
- ↑ 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 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (PDF; 6.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Nevado Sajama region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 11.0 MB)
- Municipio Yunguyo del Litoral - General Maps No. 40504
- Municipio Yunguyo del Litoral - detailed map and population data (PDF; 207 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )
- Carola Dörrie, Soil and Vegetation in the Huachacalla Area (PDF; 22.9 MB)