Yamparáez

Yamparáez is a village in the department of Chuquisaca in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Yamparáez is the seat of administration of the municipality of the province in Yamparáez Yamparáez and is located in the Bolivian Cordillera Central mountain range at an altitude of 3098 m.

Geography

Yamparáez lies between the Altiplano and the Bolivian lowlands to the ridge of the Bolivian Cordillera Central. The climate is cool temperate mountain climate with typical diurnal climate where the temperature differences during the day fluctuate more than the year.

The average annual temperature in the region is about 9 ° C (see climate chart Tarabuco ), the monthly average values ​​vary between 6 ° C in July and 11 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is 600 mm and has four arid months from May to August with monthly values ​​below 10 mm, and a significant humidity from December to February month rainfall 100-125 mm.

Traffic

Yamparáez is located at a distance of 28 kilometers of road to the southeast of the department capital of Sucre.

The village is located on the 976 km long highway Ruta 6 connecting Sucre with the Bolivian lowlands and the local metropolis of Santa Cruz. The highway is paved by Yamparáez both west to Sucre and east to the 39 km distant Tarabuco, on the other way to the east it is unpaved.

Yamparáez is also connected via a single-track railway line with Sucre and Tarabuco, but this route is no longer in operation.

Population

The population of the city has increased in the past two decades by about 40 percent:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Yamparáez 98.8 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.