Jesús de Machaca
Jesús de Machaca is a village in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
Jesús de Machaca is a central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Jesús de Machaca in the province Ingavi. Jesús de Machaca is located at an altitude of 3868 m twenty kilometers south of Lake Titicaca on the western edge of the river plain of the Río Desaguadero, midway between Nazacara and Desaguadero. Northeast of Jesús runs an elongated ridge that rises to a height of 4,830 m.
Geography
Jesús de Machaca lies between the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental to the west and to the east of the Cordillera Central in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are stronger than the average seasonal variation.
The mean average temperature is 7 ° C (see climate chart Comanche ), the monthly values vary only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and nearly 9 ° C in November / December. The mean annual precipitation is about 550 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm from May to July and from 100 to 150 mm in January and February.
Traffic network
Jesús de Machaca is located at a distance of 114 kilometers of road south-west of La Paz, the capital of the department.
From La Paz the paved highway Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto, from there the Ruta 19 a further 23 kilometers to the southwest to Viacha. Here branches off the unpaved Ruta 43 in a southwesterly direction from, from which a road branches off to the 43 kilometers to the west and reached after a further 24 kilometers Jesús de Machaca. From there, the road continues over corpa after Desaguadero on the southern shore of Lake Titicaca.
Population
The population of the town has risen in the decade between the last two censuses almost doubled:
Because of the historical population growth, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Jesús de Machaca 97.2 % of the population speak the Aymara language.