La Asunta

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

Location in near space

La Asunta is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) La Asunta in the province of Sud Yungas. The village lies at an altitude of 745 m above the left bank of the Río Boopi that forms from the influent of La Paz from a southwesterly direction fro Río de la Paz and the Río Beni drained out.

Geography

La Asunta is located on the eastern slopes of the Bolivian Cordillera Central at an altitude of 1811 m, between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera de Cocapata in the east.

The average annual temperature of the locality is 23 ° C (see climate chart La Asunta ) and the annual rainfall is about 1,300 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between about 20 ° C in June / July and 25 ° C in November / December. La Asunta has a short dry season with monthly rainfall of 25 mm during the months of June and July, in the moisture time to reach the monthly values ​​up to 200 mm from December to February.

Infrastructure

La Asunta lies at a distance of 190 kilometers of road northeast of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved highway Route 3 leads in an easterly direction over sixty kilometers Cotapata to Unduavi, then branches off the Ruta 25 from which further leads to the southwest as unpaved road seventy miles to Chulumani. From there a dirt road about Tajma and Choquechaca further north and reached after about sixty kilometers La Asunta, from where it extends further downstream on the Río Boopi along.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to approximately twice:

Because of the historical population growth, the region has a relatively high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of La Asunta 59.3 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.