Challapampa

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

Location in near space

Challapampa is a scattered settlement and is located on the Isla del Sol ( Island of the Sun dt ) in the province of Manco Kapac district ( bolivian: Municipio) Copacabana. The village is located in the southern part of the 3,810 m high Lake Titicaca at an altitude of 3815 m on the north east coast of the Island of the Sun. The core of the village, on a mere one hundred yards wide strip of land that connects one of the upstream peninsulas with the Isla del Sol.

Geography

Challapampa located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, in which the average daily temperature fluctuations clearly fail than the average seasonal variation.

The average annual temperature of the region is about 8 ° C (see climate chart Copacabana ), the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between about 6 ° C in June / July and 10 ° C in November / December. The annual precipitation is about 700 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm in the months of June and July and 150 mm in January and February.

Traffic network

Challapampa is located 170 km northwest of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved highway Ruta 2 leads in a northwesterly direction over Huarina to San Pablo de Tiquina on Lake Titicaca, where the road from Tiquina is crossed with boats and can be reached after a total of 147 km, the country town of Copacabana. From Copacabana are frequent services excursion boats to Isla del Sol.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the decade between the last two censuses to a multiple of:

Because of the historical population growth, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Copacabana 94.3 % of the population speak the Aymara language.