Shinahota

Shinahota is a small town in the Cochabamba Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Shinahota is the most populous city in the province Tiraque and central location of the newly created in 2009 Municipio Shinahota. The village is located in the far north of the province at an altitude of 267 m on the eastern shore of the Río Vinchuta before its confluence with the Rio Chapare.

Geography

Shinahota is located in the Bolivian lowlands on the northeastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental in the Bolivian Yungas.

The mean average temperature of the region is 27 ° C (see climate chart Villa Tunari ) and varies only slightly between 23 ° C in June and July and nearly 29 ° C from November to February. The climate is humid throughout the year, the annual precipitation is about 2,300 mm. The maximum rainfall is in the summer months of December and January with over 300 mm, less humid are the winter months from June to September each with 60-100 mm of precipitation.

Traffic network

Southwest of Shinahota at a distance of 183 kilometers of road is Cochabamba, the capital of the department.

By Cochabamba leads the 1657 km long highway Ruta 4, which begins in the far west to the Chilean border at Tambo Quemado and cross via the Altiplano and Cochabamba to Villa Tunari at the foot of the Cordillera. From Villa Tunari is 22 miles to Shinahota and another ten kilometers to the neighboring town Chimoré. The Ruta 4 then continues up to the lowland city of Santa Cruz and eventually ends up in the southeast part of the country on the border with Brazil in the city of Puerto Quijarro.

Population

The population of the town has nearly doubled in the past two decades:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the province Tiraque 92.7 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.