Cutusuma

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

Location in near space

Cutusuma is the central place of the Canton Villa Asunta (also: Canton Cutusuma ) in the district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the province of Sud Yungas Chulumani. The village lies at an altitude of 1701 m fifteen kilometers north-west of the Río Boopi, a source of the river Río Beni.

Geography

Cutusuma is located in the Bolivian Yungas on the eastern slopes of the high mountain ridge of the Cordillera Real. The region exhibits a pronounced daytime air, wherein the average temperature variation during the day than in the more marked flow of the seasons.

The average annual temperature of the region is 21 ° C (see climate chart Chulumani ), the average monthly values ​​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 network

Cutusuma lies at a distance of 151 kilometers of 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 miles to Unduavi, then branches off the unpaved Ruta 25 in a southeasterly direction and reaches after 69 kilometers Chulumani. From there a road offers thirteen kilometers to the village Ocobaya and reached after a further nine kilometers Cutusuma.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the decade between the last two censuses to more than three times:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Chulumani 49.9 % of the population speak the Aymara language ( 2001).