Alalay

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

Location in near space

Alalay is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Alalay in the province Mizque. The village is situated on a ridge of the Cordillera de Cochabamba at an altitude of 4061 m in the source area of the stream Río Grande, which combined with the close Pocoata Quebrada LAMPAR to Rio Acequia.

Geography

Alalay located in the northwestern part of the Cordillera Oriental, the eastern mountain chain of the Bolivian high mountains. The climate of the region is characterized by a typical diurnal climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are more pronounced than the seasonal variation.

The average annual temperature is 12 ° C (see climate chart Vacas ), the temperatures in the winter months of June / July at just 10 ° C and in November / December at a little over 14 ° C. The annual precipitation is 550 mm and reaches in the summer months from December to February values ​​of 100 to 120 mm, while in the arid months from May to September almost no precipitation falls.

Traffic network

Alalay is located 76 km from Cochabamba, the capital of the department of the same name.

From Cochabamba the paved highway Ruta 7 results in a southeasterly direction 41 km to San Benito, from where a dirt road further to the southeast across Punata by Arani. From there a dirt road continues to the southeast and reached after 21 km above the village Pocoata Alalay.

Population

The population of the town has declined in the past two decades:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, it presents a significant proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Alalay 99.6 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.