Chilahuala

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

Location in near space

Chilahuala is the third largest town of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) San Pedro de Curahuara and is located in the province of Gualberto Villarroel. The village lies at an altitude of 3766 m at a river crossing over the Río Desaguadero, which connects Lake Titicaca with the Poopó lake.

Geography

Chilahuala 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 fluctuation of day and night temperatures is more distinct than that of the seasonal fluctuations.

The average annual temperature of the region lies at 8-9 ° C (see climate chart Callapa ), the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 5 ° C in July and well 10 ° C from November to March. The annual rainfall is about 400 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm in the months of May to August and at 100 mm in December.

Traffic network

Chilahuala is located 148 kilometers by road south of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz from the Ruta 4 introduces the paved highway Ruta 2 to El Alto, from there the Ruta 1 in a southerly direction as asphalt road to Patacamaya, then in a southwesterly direction to Cañaviri. From there you get on a dirt track to the south over Umala after Chilahuala and reached after a further 37 km to the southwest of San Pedro de Curahuara, the administrative seat of the province.

Population

The population of the settlement has risen in the decade between the last two censuses by more than half:

For historical reasons, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of San Pedro de Curahuara 96.8 % of the population speak the Aymara language ..