Ayo Ayo

Ayo Ayo is a village in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Ayo Ayo is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Ayo Ayo in the province of flavor and lies at an altitude of 3894 m. Ayo Ayo is on a up to 20 km wide north- south running flat portion of the Bolivian Altiplano, right on the edge of the village rise the Vorgebirgsketten the Serranía de Sicasica that rises here to just under 5,000 m.

Geography

Ayo Ayo is on the Bolivian plateau between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The region's climate is subhumid and has a typical diurnal climate in which the average daily temperature fluctuations are stronger than the seasonal variation.

The mean average temperature of the region is around 9 ° C, the average monthly temperatures range from 7 ° C in July and 11 ° C in December (see climate chart Patacamaya ). The annual rainfall is around 500 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm during the months of June and July and close to 100 mm from December to February.

Traffic network

Ayo Ayo is at a distance of 83 kilometers of road south of La Paz, the capital of the department.

From La Paz from the paved highway Ruta 2, the Ruta 1 to Ayo Ayo and continues west to El Alto, from there 70 km to the south over Patacamaya after Caracollo where the Ruta 1 next to Oruro leads to the south and the Ruta 4 branches off to the east located Cochabamba.

Population

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

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Ayo Ayo 92.6 % of the population speak the Aymara language.

In June 2004, the town of Ayo Ayo made ​​worldwide headlines when its mayor, Benjamín Altamirano was kidnapped by allegations of corruption on the open road in the center of La Paz and found a little later in the main square of Ayo Ayo dead, tied to a stake and with clear traces of torture and burns. It is unclear whether this type of lynching can be " referred to as 'normal' for the people of the Aymara ," as the Bolivian indigenous leader and deputy Felipe Quispe claimed or is not provided in the indigenous people's justice, as the indigenous leader of Ayo Ayo Roberto Chino says.

Tourism

Tourist gem of Ayo Ayo is the local church, an architectural monument of the 16th century. Built in the style of Mestizenbarock and Renaissance construction protects relics in the form of woodcarving and driven gold and silver work from the time of the Viceroyalty of Peru.

Sons and daughters of the town

The most famous citizen of Ayo Ayo is the hero of freedom Julián Apaza ( Tupaq Katari ), indigenous leaders and alleged descendants of the Inca emperor layer of an Indian army besieged in 1781 twice for a total length 184 days La Paz and the Spaniards inflicted heavy losses, finally caught but was taken and tortured to death.