Puerto Carabuco

Puerto Carabuco is a village in the department of La Paz in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Puerto Carabuco is the central place of the district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the province of Puerto Carabuco Eliodoro Camacho. The village lies at an altitude of 3830 m on the Bolivian plateau on the eastern shore of Lake Titicaca between the villages Chaguaya and Escoma.

Geography

Puerto Carabuco located on the Bolivian Altiplano at the western edge of the Cordillera Real. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day be more pronounced than in the course of the seasons.

The average annual temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 850 mm (see climate chart Puerto Acosta ). The monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between about 6 ° C in July and well 10 ° C from November to January. The monthly rainfall range from less than 15 mm in June to August and a humidity from December to March values ​​120-170 mm.

Traffic network

Puerto Carabuco lies at a distance of 154 kilometers of road north-west of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved highway Ruta 2 runs north 70 km to Huarina, from there a further 84 miles up the Ruta 16 through Achacachi and Ancoraimes to Puerto Carabuco and on to Escoma and Puerto Acosta.

Population

The population of the town declined slightly in the decade between the last two censuses published. Detailed data of the current census of 2012 are currently not yet available:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Puerto Carabuco 97.0 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.