Alcalá (Tomina)

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

Location in near space

Alcalá is a central place of the county ( municipality ) in the province of Villa Alcalá Tomina. The village lies at an altitude of 2072 m in one of the side valleys on the eastern slopes of the Bolivian Cordillera Central, 25 km from the country town Padilla.

Geography

Alcalá is located at the junction of bounded by the Cordillera Central Altiplano to the Bolivian lowlands of the Gran Chaco, 250 km due east of the Poopó lake.

The mean average temperature of the region is about 18 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 600 mm (see climate chart Padilla ). The region has no distinct temperature gradient, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between about 15 ° C in June and July and 20 ° C from November to January. The monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm from May to August and more than 100 mm from December to February.

Traffic network

Alcalá is located at a distance of 177 kilometers of road east of Sucre, the capital of the department.

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 Ruta 6 from Sucre to Padilla is paved only on the first 67 kilometers to Tarabuco the next 120 miles to Padilla wearing an unpaved gravel surface. Fifteen kilometers from Padilla branches off a dirt road off to the south and reached after ten kilometers Alcalá.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to more than three times:

Some Municipalities of the province Tomina have a very high percentage of Quechua population in the municipality of Villa Alcalá 34.7 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.