Llallagua

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Town in Potosí Department, Bolivia

Llallagua Llallawa
Town

Seal
18°25′S 66°35′W / 18.417°S 66.583°W / -18.417; -66.583
Country	Bolivia
Department	Potosí Department
Province	Rafael Bustillo Province
Municipality	Llallagua Municipality
Canton	Llallagua Canton
Government
• Mayor	Tomás Quiróz (Without Fear Movement; elected 2010)
• President	Maximo Urquieta Mitma (2007)
Elevation	12,779 ft (3,895 m)
Population (2001)
• Total	20,065
Time zone	UTC-4 (BOT)

Llallagua (in hispanicized spelling) or Llallawa (Aymara for a monstrous potato (like two potatoes) or animal, Quechua for the god of seed-time during the Inca period)^[1]^[2] is a town in the Potosí Department in Bolivia. It is the seat of the Llallagua Municipality, the third municipal section of the Rafael Bustillo Province.

Geography

Llallagua features a rare microclimate amidst the semi-arid tundras of Potosí and Oruro, due to its extreme elevation near 4000m. Semi-arid and with average temperatures in its warmest month sitting right on the 11 °C threshold, the city's climate straddles that of the subtropical highland climate (Cwc, according to the Köppen climate classification), with subpolar oceanic characteristics and a cold semi-arid climate (BSk). Summers are cool and wet with daily highs rarely rising above 22 °C, while winters feature cooler days with much colder nights averaging −4 °C. These low temperatures are a result of the extreme precipitation deficit during the winter months with the resulting aridity leading to an increased diurnal temperature variation.

Climate data for Llallagua, Bolivia (2000−2012)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	17 (63)	17 (63)	16 (61)	17 (63)	15 (59)	15 (59)	14 (57)	15 (59)	16 (61)	18 (64)	19 (66)	18 (64)	19 (66)
Daily mean °C (°F)	9 (48)	9 (48)	9 (48)	8.5 (47.3)	6.5 (43.7)	5.5 (41.9)	5 (41)	6 (43)	6.5 (43.7)	9.5 (49.1)	10 (50)	10 (50)	7.9 (46.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	3 (37)	3 (37)	2 (36)	0 (32)	−2 (28)	−3 (27)	−4 (25)	−3 (27)	−1 (30)	1 (34)	2 (36)	3 (37)	0.1 (32.2)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	153.0 (6.02)	125.2 (4.93)	72.7 (2.86)	20.5 (0.81)	2.7 (0.11)	2.3 (0.09)	3.8 (0.15)	6.4 (0.25)	14.0 (0.55)	23.3 (0.92)	36.7 (1.44)	98.4 (3.87)	559.0 (22.01)
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm)	17	16	12	5	1	0	0	1	2	5	7	14	80
Mean daily sunshine hours	6	6	7	8	9	9	9	9	8	8	7	7	7.75
Source: SENAMHI^[3]

Gallery

Simon I Patiño Theatre
Metavauxite, a rare member of the vauxite group. Siglo XX Mine, Llallagua, Bolivia. Size: 4.2 x 1.2 x 1.1 cm.

References

^ Radio San Gabriel, "Instituto Radiofonico de Promoción Aymara" (IRPA) 1993, Republicado por Instituto de las Lenguas y Literaturas Andinas-Amazónicas (ILLLA-A) 2011, Transcripción del Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara, P. Ludovico Bertonio 1612 (Spanish-Aymara-Aymara-Spanish dictionary)
^ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa (2007). Diccionario Bilingüe: Iskay simipi yuyayk’anch: Quechua – Castellano / Castellano – Quechua (PDF). La Paz, Bolivia: futatraw.ourproject.org.
^ "SISMET". SENAMHI. Retrieved 19 December 2021.