Villa Vaca Guzmán

Muyupampa (also: Villa Vaca Guzmán Villa Vittorio Guzmán ) is a country town in the department of Chuquisaca in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location

Muyupampa is the seat of the administration of the province Luis Calvo and central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio), the municipality of Villa Vaca Guzmán. The city lies at an altitude of 1189 m on the Rio Ñancahuazú, a left tributary of the Río Parapeti. Muyupampa and is bordered to the east to the mountain range of the Serrania del Incahuasi and to the west by the Serranía del INAO.

Geography

Muyupampa is located on the western edge of the Bolivian lowlands nestled between north- south running Voranden Mountain bars on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Cordillera Central. The climate is subtropical, the six-month period humidity ranges from November to April and the dry season from May to October.

The annual average temperature is around 20 ° C, 16 ° C from June to July and about 23 ° C from November to January (see climate chart Muyupampa ). The annual rainfall is just 750 mm, the wettest months are December to February with an approximately 130 mm and driest months of July and August with average values ​​below 10 mm.

Traffic network

Muyupampa lies at a distance of 366 kilometers of road to the southeast of the department capital of Sucre.

The city is located on the 976 km long highway Ruta 6 connecting Sucre with the Bolivian lowlands and the local metropolis of Santa Cruz. The road in the area of ​​Villa Vaca Guzmán between Monteagudo in the province of Hernando Siles and Lagunillas in the province of Cordillera consists of an unpaved gravel or Erdtrasse.

Muyupampa is connected to the national air transport system through a unpaved runway, which the abbreviation " SLYP " has the ICAO code.

Population

The population of the city has increased dramatically in the past two decades to about a half times:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, it presents a certain proportion of the Guarani population in the municipality of Villa Vaca Guzmán 24.4 percent of the population speak the Guarani language.

History

In 1967 the name Muyupampa went through the world press, as in April failed an attack by the guerrilla group led by Che Guevara in the village. At the same time, the then 26 -year-old French scientist Regis Debray was near the small town arrested along with two companions, and was sentenced on charges of high treason later to thirty years in prison.