Batallas

Batallas is a country town in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Batallas is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Batallas in the province of Los Andes and is at an altitude of 3852 meters, eight kilometers southeast of Puerto Pérez on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Southeast of Batallas extends the wide plains of the Bolivian highlands to over El Alto and La Paz addition, thirty kilometers east of Batallas runs the mountain of the Cordillera Muñecas bolt that rises here with the Huayna Potosí to over 6,000 meters.

Geography

Batallas is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day be more pronounced than in sequence.

The average annual temperature of the region is located at 9 ° C, the average monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in November and December (see climate chart Batallas ). The annual precipitation is about 600 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 15 mm during the months of June to August and between 100 and 120 mm from December to February.

Traffic network

Batallas is located at a distance of 61 kilometers of road north-west of La Paz, the capital of the department.

From La Paz from the paved highway Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto and continue in a northwesterly direction over Vilaque and Palcoco after Batallas. From here, the Ruta 2 continues to Copacabana on Lake Titicaca, at Huarina branches off the ' Ruta 16 to the north, which runs along the Peruvian border to the Bolivian lowlands.

Population

The population of the city has increased in the past two decades by about a third:

Because of the historical population growth, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Batallas 93.9 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.