Irupana

Irupana is a country town in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Irupana is the central place of the district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the province of Sud Yungas Irupana. The village is situated on an altitude of 1910 m ten kilometers in a straight line north-west of the Río Boopi, a source of the river Río Beni.

Geography

Irupana is located in the Bolivian Yungas on the eastern slopes of the high mountain ridge of the Cordillera Real. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations apparent failure than the average fluctuations over the year.

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

Irupana lies at a distance of 157 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 over Chulumani after 97 kilometers Irupana. From there it leads by the villages Inquisivi and Independencia ( Ayopaya ) and, after a total of 481 kilometers at Vinto on the Ruta 4, which achieved another fifteen kilometers Cochabamba.

Population

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

The village has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Irupana 56.4 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.