Araj Huma

Araj Huma is a village in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Araj Huma is located in the province of Gualberto Villarroel and is the largest town of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) San Pedro de Curahuara. The village lies at an altitude of 3745 m, ten kilometers south of the Río Desaguadero and 30 km west of the ridge Serranía de Huayllamarca.

Geography

Araj Huma is on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate in which the average daily temperature fluctuations are stronger than the seasonal temperature fluctuations.

The mean annual temperature of the region lies at 8-9 ° C (see climate chart Callapa ), the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 5 ° C in June / July and well 10 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is about 400 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 25 mm from April to October and reached only in January a value of 100 mm.

Traffic network

Araj Huma is located 155 kilometers by road from La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz leads the paved highway Ruta 2 to El Alto, from there the Ruta 1 in a southerly direction as asphalt road over to Sica Sica Patacamaya. From there take the dirt road to the south, crossed by about thirty kilometers to Río Desaguadero and reached after a further ten kilometers Araj Huma. Of Huma Araj from further south a road leads Papel Pampa, to the west you reach the provincial capital San Pedro de Curahuara.

Population

The population of the village Araj Huma was in the 2001 census at 403 residents.

For historical reasons, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of San Pedro de Curahuara 96.8 percent of the population speak the Aymara language ..