Guadalupe, Sud LÃpez
Guadalupe is a town in the Potosí Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
Guadalupe is the central place of the Canton of Guadalupe in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) San Antonio de Esmoruco in the province Sur Lípez. The town is located 35 kilometers north of the border with Argentina at an altitude of 4172 m at a left tributary of the Río San Juan del Oro.
Geography
Guadalupe is located on the Bolivian Altiplano in the mountain range of the Cordillera de Lípez in the southern part of Bolivia. The village is characterized by an arid mountain climate, rich rainfall in any month for the cultivation of crop plants from.
The mean annual temperature of the region is located at about 6 ° C (see climate chart San Antonio de Lípez ) and the annual rainfall is only 200 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 1 ° C in July and 8 ° C from November to March. The monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm from May to October 30-50 mm from December to March.
Traffic network
Guadalupe is located at a distance of 480 kilometers of road south of Potosi, the capital of the department.
From Potosí from the highway Ruta 5 runs in a southwesterly direction over 208 km Ticatica to Uyuni, from where the Ruta 21 to the southeast 96 km to Atocha and another 100 kilometers to Tupiza. About 25 miles behind Atocha branches off a dirt road in Escoriani from southwest and operates 40 miles to San Vicente and on to the provincial capital of San Pablo de Lípez. Guadalupe then halfway between the 28 kilometer away in San Pablo and the 21 kilometers to the south, San Antonio de Esmoruco.
Population
The population of the town has increased significantly over the past decade:
Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the province Sur Lípez 88 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.