Zapatera Norte
| Zapatera Norte | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 191 pop (2012) | ||
| height | 895 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0302-0400-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 33 ′ S , 63 ° 50 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | Gran Chaco Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Yacuiba |
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Zapatera Norte is a town in the Tarija Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Zapatera Norte is the largest town in the canton of Zapatera in the municipality of Caraparí in the southwestern part of the Gran Chaco province . The village lies at an altitude of 895 m at the confluence of the Río Carahuatarenda and Quebrada Arrayanal, the continuation of which becomes the Río Palos Blancos downstream.
geography
Zapatera Norte lies between the Bolivian Andean chains in the west and the lowlands of the subtropical Gran Chaco in the east. The climate is subtropical with hot humid summers and moderately warm and dry winters.
The annual average temperature is almost 22 ° C, the average monthly values fluctuate between 15 ° C in June / July and 26 ° C in January (see Yacuiba climate diagram). Annual precipitation is just under 1100 mm, with a four-month dry season from June to September with monthly precipitation below 15 mm and a humidity period from December to March with 160–200 mm monthly precipitation.
population
The population of the village has increased only slightly in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 183 | census |
| 2012 | 191 | census |
Transport network
Zapatera Norte is 200 kilometers by road east of Tarija , the capital of the department.
A dirt road leads through Zapatera Norte , which leads west to Zapatero Centro and south to Itaú , which is twenty kilometers away , and is only three kilometers west of the Ruta 29 highway . Coming from the south, this leads from Caraparí via Acheral to Palos Blancos , where it meets Ruta 11 . This leads 173 kilometers to the west and meets the Ruta 1 eight kilometers before Tarija , which from there crosses the entire Altiplano to the north and finally reaches Desaguadero on the Peruvian border via the large cities of Potosí , Oruro and El Alto .
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 dated November 13, 2013 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
Web links
- Relief map 6829-III of the Zapatera region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 1.92 MB)
- Relief map of the Villamontes region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.68 MB)
- Municipio Caraparí - detailed map and population data (PDF; 671 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Caraparí - General Maps No. 60302 ( Spanish )
- Departamento Tarija - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )