Arampampa
Arampampa is a village in the department of Potosí in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
Arampampa is the capital of the province Bernardino Bilbao and the central location of the county ( bolivian: Municipio) Arampampa. It is located on a fertile plateau at an altitude of 3072 m, three kilometers north of the Río Kicha Kicha which opens ten kilometers below the town in the Río Caine, the upper reaches of the Bolivian Río Grande.
Geography
Arampampa is located in the Bolivian Cordillera Central in the transition region to the Bolivian lowlands. The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate, in which the mean temperature variation during the day is more distinct than in the course of the seasons.
The mean average temperature of the region is about 14-15 ° C (see climate chart Arampampa ) and varies only slightly from just under 11 ° C in June and July and about 17 ° C in November and December. The annual rainfall is around 500 mm and has a pronounced dry season from April to October month rainfall of 0-20 mm, only in the short term moisture January-February fall from 100 to 140 mm month precipitation.
Traffic network
Arampampa is conveniently moderately unfavorable in the extreme northeast corner of the department of Potosí, in a distance of 92 kilometers of road south of the city of Cochabamba, capital of the neighboring departments of Cochabamba, and 662 kilometers from the capital of the department of Potosí.
From Arapampa of a road link leads to fifteen kilometers in the deep valley of the Río Caine, it flows in a southeasterly direction into the Bolivian lowlands. At the mouth of the Río Chincari the road crosses the Río Caine at an altitude of 2300 m, in order to subsequently pass emporzuwinden to the village Izata to more than 3300 m and run through the city Tarata to Cochabamba.
In Cochabamba, the road from Tarata hits the highway Ruta 4, which leads 210 kilometers west to Caracollo where it meets the north-south highway Ruta 1. From here, it is another 360 km on the Route 1 south to Potosi.
Population
The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by about half: