Sica Sica

Sica Sica is a country town in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Sica Sica is the administrative seat of the province of flavor and the central location of the county ( bolivian: Municipio) Sica Sica. The city lies at an altitude of 3934 m on the southwestern edge of the Serrania de Sicasica, a ridge that extends in a southeasterly direction between La Paz and Cochabamba.

Geography

Sica Sica is on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. 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 about 7 ° C, the annual precipitation is 460 mm (see climate chart Patacamaya ). The monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C in November / December, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm from May to August and at 110 mm in January.

Traffic network

Sica Sica is 124 road kilometers southeast of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

At La Paz passes the paved highway Ruta 1, which leads from Lake Titicaca from the southeast on El Alto to Sica Sica and on about the department capitals of Oruro, Potosí and Tarija Bermejo according to the Argentine border.

Population

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

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Sica Sica 90.3 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.

Tourism

Tourist gem of Sica Sica is the cathedral Fernando Soria, a national monument dating from the 17th century. Built in the style of Mestizenbarock and Renaissance construction protects relics in the form of woodcarving and driven gold and silver work from the time of the Viceroyalty of Peru. Other tourist destinations near the village are the hot springs of Sica Sica and the resort Ayo Ayo, birthplace of the indigenous rebel leader Julián Apaza ( Tupaq Katari ).