Khola

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

Location in near space

Khola is the most populous city of the canton Caracato district ( bolivian: Municipio) Sapahaqui in the province Loayza. The village of Khola is located at an altitude of 2090 m at the mouth of the Río Huacullani in the Río Luribay in the northern foothills of the Serranía de Sicasica.

Geography

Khola is located between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands to the east. The region exhibits a typical day time environment, in which the mean temperature difference between day and night is greater than the temperature difference between seasons.

The mean average temperature of the region is about 17 ° C and varies between 14 ° C in June / July and 19 ° C in November / December (see climate chart Khola ). The annual rainfall is 650 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to August and monthly rainfall of more than 100 mm from December to February.

Traffic network

Khola is located at a distance of 140 kilometers of road southeast of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved highway Ruta 1 leads south across El Alto to the south. Twelve kilometers south of El Alto branches off a country road to the southwest and follows the Río Cala Jahuira twenty kilometers upstream. From there branches off a dirt access road from the northeast and reached after a further 35 kilometers Sapahaqui. The road follows the course of the river to the village of Sapahaqui Caracato and further north to the Río Caracato Khola.

Population

The Einwohnerzahlder town has risen in the past two decades to more than double:

Because of the historical demographic development in the municipality of Sapahaqui the Aymara population is predominant, 96.7 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.