Apillapampa

Apillapampa ( Aymara: " Oka - level ") is a town in the Cochabamba Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Apillapampa is the third largest town of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Capinota in the province Capinota. The village lies at an altitude of 3326 m on a plateau about ten kilometers south-east of the Río Arque, which is one of the source rivers of the Bolivian Río Grande. West of the town stretches a north- south running ridge that reaches a height of over 3,800 m here.

Geography

Apillapampa is located in the Bolivian Cordillera Central in the transition region to the Bolivian lowlands.

The mean average temperature of the region is about 14 ° C (see climate chart Apillapampa ) and varies only slightly between well 10 ° C in June and July and about 17 ° C in November and December. The annual precipitation is about 550 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September, with monthly rainfall less than 10 mm, and a humidity season from December to February, up to 140 mm month precipitation.

Traffic network

Apillapampa located 95 kilometers by road from Cochabamba, the capital of the department in the south.

From Cochabamba leads in a westerly direction the paved highway Ruta 4, which has met with Caracollo on the Ruta 1, which traverses the Altiplano from north to south. 37 km southwest of Cochabamba branches at Parotani a dirt road in a southeasterly direction and reaches 30 kilometers, the city Capinota. Three kilometers south of Capinota branches off another highway to the south, crossing the Río Arque and further leads to the village of Arque. Shortly after crossing the river turn one track branches off to the south, reached after 22 kilometers, the village Apillapampa and continues on to San Pedro de Buena Vista.

Population

The population of the town has declined slightly over the past decade:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Capinota 90.9 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.