Tinguipaya

Tinguipaya (also: Tinquipaya or Gabriel Vera) is a village in the department of Potosí in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Tinguipaya is the central place of the district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the Province of Tomás Frías Tinguipaya. The village lies at an altitude of 3410 m on the right bank of the Río Tinguipaya, which flows in its further development in the Pilcomayo River, a tributary of the Río Paraguay and Río Paraná.

Geography

Tinguipaya is located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano in front of the Andean mountain range, the Cordillera Central. The climate is typical diurnal climate of the cold tropics, where the average variation of the temperatures during the day be more pronounced than during all seasons.

The average annual temperature of the region is about 7 ° C (see climate chart Tinguipaya ), the monthly average values ​​vary only slightly between about 4 ° C in June / July and nearly 9 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is about 370 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 15 mm in the months of April to September and the maximum at about 80 mm in January and February.

Traffic

Tinguipaya lies at a distance of 45 kilometers of road northwest of Potosí, the capital of the department of the same name.

From Potosí from the highway Ruta 1 runs north through Tinguipaya further Poopo, Oruro and El Alto, the neighboring city of La Paz, and after Desaguadero on Lake Titicaca.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by about a third:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, it presents a significant proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Tinguipaya 99.3 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.

Gabriel Vera

Gabriel Vera, whose name it bears the village as a second name in the 1930s was the first mining engineer in the room Potosí.

His daughter Josefina Vera Murillo traveled every year the Bolivian mining settlements to teach the miners and their families in the Spanish language. Later she published the book " Hacia Mi Porvenir ", which turned to the Spanish- speaking people in these settlements and even today is standard at any local library.

Gabriel's granddaughters lead supporting families in the Bolivian mining settlements continued:

• Ximena Murillo, developed at the University of St. Thomas (Houston, Texas), the humanitarian project "Empowering Women in Mining Communities of Bolivia" ( participation of women in Bolivian mining settlements );
• Carla Murillo is Head of ODPS Bolivia, the local organization in Bolivia, which converts the ideas of the project site;
• Sonia Murillo is a pediatrician and sponsors with their clinic medical relief supplies for children in the Bolivian mining settlements.