Villa Rosario de Wilacala

Villa Rosario is a town in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Villa Rosario is the central place of Cantón Villa Rosario de Wila Khala in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Mocomoco in the province of Heliodorus Camacho. The village lies at an altitude of 4264 m on the northwestern edge of the Cordillera Muñecas near the border with Peru.

Geography

Villa Rosario is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east.

The mean average temperature of the region is located at 8 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 750 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 5 ° C in July and 10 ° C in December. The monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm during the months of June and July, and more than 100 mm from December to March.

Traffic network

Villa Rosario is located 216 kilometers by road north-west of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved highway Ruta 2 leads in a northwesterly direction 70 km to Huarina, then branches off the Ruta 16 from which further leads to the southwest as a paved road in 97 miles along the Lake Titicaca to Escoma. From there, the Ruta 16 continues as a dirt road further north and reached after 49 kilometers Villa Rosario.

Population

The population of the town has decreased significantly in the 1990s:

Because of the historical population growth, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Mocomoco 97.0 % of the population speak the Aymara language.