Chucamarca

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

Location in near space

Chucamarca is the central place of the Canton Chucamarca district ( bolivian: Municipio) Yaco in the province Loayza. The village Yaco is the most populous city in the municipality of Yaco and is located in the mountain range of the Serrania de Sicasica at an altitude of 4004 m.

Geography

Chucamarca lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands to the east. The region exhibits a typical day time environment, in which the mean temperature difference between day and night is greater than the temperature difference between seasons.

The mean average temperature of the region is just under 7 ° C and varies between 3 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C in November / December (see climate chart Caxata ). The annual rainfall is 500 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to July and monthly rainfall of over 100 mm in January and February.

Traffic network

Chucamarca is located 215 kilometers by road from 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. Here a road branches off to the northeast and performs more than 73 km above the towns of Villa Puchuni and Tablachaca after Chucamarca.

Population

The population of Chucamarca has risen in the past two decades to about three times:

Because of the historical population development, the Aymara population is predominant in Yaco, in the municipality of Yaco 97.5 % of the population speak the Aymara language.