Colchani (PotosÃ)
Colchani is a village in the department of Potosí in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
Colchani is a village in the province of Antonio Quijarro and the third largest town in the county ( bolivian: Municipio) Uyuni. The village lies at an altitude of 3668 m on the eastern shore of the Salar de Uyuni, 12,000 km ² of the largest salt lake in the world, and is on the salt lake a center of salt production.
Geography
Colchani 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 in this region at the Salar de Uyuni is arid, only from December to March fall precipitation between 20 and 45 mm in the month (see climate chart Uyuni ), in the remaining eight months of falls sporadic precipitation. The mean annual temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 5 ° C in June / July and 11 ° C from November to March.
Traffic
Colchani lies at a distance of 177 kilometers of road southwest of Potosí, the capital of the department of the same name.
From Potosí out performs the highway Ruta 5 198 km in a southwesterly direction to Uyuni, and 21 kilometers from Uyuni, the road leads right past Colchani.
By Colchani also leads the 1889 excited by the then President Aniceto Arce railway line that runs from Uyuni to Ollagüe.
Population
The population of the village Colchani (* = Cerdas / Colchani ) has risen in the past two decades:
Due to the historically evolved population distribution, it presents a significant proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Uyuni 43.4 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.