Totora (city)

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

Location in near space

Totora is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Totora and seat of the administration of the province Carrasco. The village lies at an altitude of 2800 m in the upper reaches of the River Sauces, which drains below Totora in a southeasterly direction to the Río Grande out.

Geography

Totora is located in one of the high valleys of the mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental, which merges into the Bolivian lowlands to the east. The climate of the region is characterized by a typical diurnal climate in which the temperature differences between day and night be more pronounced than between seasons.

The average annual temperature is 14 ° C, the monthly values ​​vary between 11 ° C in June / July and 16 ° C in November / December (see climate chart ). The annual precipitation is 600 mm and falls mainly in the summer months from December to February with monthly values ​​of 100-125 mm; which is offset by a dry season from May to October month rainfall of less than 30 mm.

Traffic

Totora is located at a distance of 163 kilometers of road southeast of Cochabamba, the capital of the department of the same name.

From Cochabamba the paved highway Ruta 7 leads south-east 149 kilometers to Epizana, then branches off the unpaved Ruta 5 to the south and runs through Totora on to Sucre and to the Chilean border.

Population

The population of the city has increased by more than half of the current decade:

Due to the historically developed population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Totora 97.8 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.