Sabaya

Sabaya is a village in the department of Oruro in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Sabaya is the administrative seat of the Province of Atahuallpa and central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Sabaya. The village lies at an altitude of 3707 m in the valley of the Río Sabaya on the eastern slopes of the Cerro Pumari ( 4787 m). 25 km southeast of Sabaya of salt lake Salar de Coipasa, 20 kilometers to the south-west of the stratovolcano Tata Sabaya ( 5385 m).

Geography

The climate in the region is semi-arid, the annual rainfall is only 200 mm (see climate chart Sabaya ). From April to November the dry season with monthly values ​​of less than 10 mm of rainfall, the humidity in the summer time is short and the rain not very productive. The annual average temperature is about 7 ° C without significant variations during the year, but with considerable daily fluctuations in temperature and frequent freeze-thaw cycles.

The vegetation in the region corresponding to the semi-arid Puna. It is treeless and is composed mainly of thorn bushes, grasses, succulents and cushion plants. It is economically used as a llama, alpaca and sheep pasture.

Traffic network

Sabaya is located at a distance of 189 kilometers of road south-west of Oruro, the capital of the department of the same name.

From Oruro leads the largely unpaved Ruta 12 highway about 189 km in a southwesterly direction over Ancaravi and Huachacalla to Sabaya and on to Pisiga Bolívar at the Chilean border.

Population

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

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Sabaya 62.9 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.