Chajlaya

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

Location in near space

Chajlaya is the largest town in the county ( bolivian: Municipio) Chuma in the province Muñecas. The scattered settlement Chajlaya lies in a high valley in the northwestern part of the Cordillera Muñecas at an altitude of 3122 m, about thirty miles from the eastern shore of Lake Titicaca.

Geography

Chajlaya located on the Bolivian Altiplano at the western edge of the Cordillera Real. 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.

DieJahresdurchschnittstemperatur the region is just under 14 ° C (see climate chart Mocomoco ), the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 11 ° C in June / July and 15 ° C from October to March. The annual precipitation is about 750 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 20 mm from July to August and at 100-150 mm from December to March.

Traffic network

Chajlaya is located 207 kilometers by road from La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved highway Ruta 2 runs north 70 km to Huarina, further thence in a northwesterly direction 97 km Ruta 16 through Achacachi, Ancoraimes and Puerto Carabuco after Escoma. From there, the Ruta 16 turns to the northeast toward Charazani. After 20 kilometers of a dirt road branches off to the east and reaches after a further 20 kilometers Chajlaya.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to nearly twice:

Because of the historical population growth, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Chuma 88.5 % of the population speak the Aymara language.