Cala Cala

Cala Cala is a country town in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Cala Cala is the third largest municipality in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Sica Sica in the province of flavor and lies at an altitude of 3832 m. North-west of Cala Cala extends the wide plains of the Bolivian highlands, and east of the town rises the Serranía de Sicasica, a north- south oriented mountain barrier between La Paz and Cochabamba, which rises to more than 4500 m.

Geography

Cala Cala is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day be more pronounced as the year progresses.

The average annual temperature of the region is about 7 ° C (see climate chart Patacamaya ), monthly average values ​​vary only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C in November / December. The annual precipitation is 460 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm from May to August and at 110 mm in January.

Traffic network

Cala Cala is located at a distance of 147 kilometers of road south of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz from the paved highway Ruta Ruta 2 1 leads west to El Alto, from there 129 km south across Sica Sica after Konani (also ' Germán Busch). From there, the highway continues in a southeasterly direction to the department capitals Oruro, Potosí and Tarija and Bermejo according to the Argentine border. Cala Cala is located five kilometers south of Konani off the Ruta 1

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to more than double:

Because of the historical population growth, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Sica Sica 90.3 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.

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