Chicaloma

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

Location in near space

Chicaloma is the central place of the Canton Chicaloma and the second largest town in the county ( bolivian: municipality ) in the province of Sud Yungas Irupana. The village is situated on a height of 1677 m about fifteen kilometers in a straight line north-west of the Río Boopi, a source of the river Río Beni.

Geography

Chicaloma is located in the Bolivian Yungas on the eastern slopes of the high mountain ridge of the Cordillera Real. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day be more pronounced than during all seasons.

The average annual temperature of the region is 21 ° C (see climate chart Chulumani ), the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 18 ° C in July and 22 ° C in December. The annual rainfall is about 1150 mm, the monthly rainfall between about 20 mm in the months of June and July, and more than 150 mm from December to February.

Traffic

Chicaloma located approximately 150 kilometers by road east of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved highway Route 3 leads in a northeasterly direction 60 km to Unduavi, then branches off the unpaved Ruta 25 in a southeasterly direction and reaches over Chulumani after 97 km Irupana. From there take the unpaved road to Chicaloma.

Population

The population of the settlement was inferior to significant fluctuations over the past two decades:

The village has a high proportion of Afro- Bolivian population. They are descendants of slaves who were brought by the Spaniards to Bolivia to work in the mines, and which were later resettled in the Yungas.