Colomi

Colomi is a country town in the Cochabamba Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Colomi is the central place of the district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the province of Chapare Colomi. The city lies at an altitude of 3300 m on one of the tributaries, four kilometers north-west Corani Lake, a nearly 10 -kilometer-long lake with an area of about 18 km ².

Geography

Colomi is located in one of the high valleys of the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental halfway between Altiplano and Chapare lowlands. The climate is temperate and a typical diurnal climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations between day and night be stronger than between the cold and warm season.

The average annual temperature of the region is almost 11 ° C (see climate chart Colomi ), the monthly values ​​fluctuate while only slightly between 8 ° C in June / July and about 14 ° C in November. The annual rainfall is around 550 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly rainfall less than 15 mm, and a short time humidity from December to February with 90 to 120 mm month precipitation.

Traffic network

Colomi lies at a distance of 53 kilometers of road east of the city of Cochabamba, the capital of the department.

By Colomi performs the highway Ruta 4, which crosses with a length of 1,657 kilometers, the entire country in West - East direction. The road begins in the west at Tambo Quemado to the Chilean border, happened Cochabamba and Sacaba and reached after 430 kilometers Colomi. The road continues east across Santa Cruz to Puerto Suarez in the Brazilian border. Apart from the last 700 kilometers to the east, the road is paved.

Population

The population of the town has risen only marginally over the past two decades:

Due to the historically grown ethnic composition of the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Colomi 83.5 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.