Ancoraimes

Ancoraimes is a village in the department of La Paz in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Ancoraimes is the central village of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Ancoraimes in the province Omasuyos and lies at an altitude of 3883 m in the Bolivian highlands on the eastern shore of Lake Titicaca.

Geography

Ancoraimes located on the Bolivian Altiplano at the western edge of the Cordillera Real, just 40 kilometers from the Ancohuma, the third highest mountain in Bolivia. The climate in the area Ancoraimes is derived from the altitude on the Altiplano and proximity to large water surface of Lake Titicaca, which mitigates the temperature fluctuations. So we are dealing with a typical diurnal climate where the temperature variations during the day clearly fail than the average seasonal variation.

The average annual temperature is 11 ° C (see climate chart Achacachi ), the monthly average in the coldest month (July ) with 8 ° C only slightly from the warmest months ( November to March) deviates by 12 ° C. The climate is arid June to August with only sporadic rainfall and humid in the summer months, especially December to March, with monthly rainfall of sometimes more than 100 mm. The annual rainfall is about 600 mm.

Traffic network

Ancoraimes lies at a distance of 131 kilometers of road north-west of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved highway Ruta 2 runs north seventy kilometers to Huarina, from there another fifty miles up the Ruta 16 through Achacachi after Ancoraimes and on to Puerto Carabuco.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by about a fifth:

Because of the historical population growth, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Ancoraimes 98.8 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.