Cairoma

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

Location in near space

Cairoma is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Cairoma in the province Loayza. The village lies at an altitude Cairoma of 3888 m at a right tributary of the Río Luribay in one of the valleys between the Serranía de Sicasica and the Cordillera Quimsa Cruz.

Geography

Cairoma lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands to the east. The region has a typical diurnal climate, ie the average temperature difference between day and night is greater than the temperature difference between seasons.

The mean average temperature of the region is about 17 ° C and varies between 14 ° C in June / July and 19 ° C in November / December (see climate chart Khola ). The annual rainfall is 650 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to August and monthly rainfall of more than 100 mm from December to February.

Traffic network

Cairoma lies at a distance of 190 kilometers of road southeast of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved highway Ruta 1 leads south across El Alto to the south. Twelve kilometers south of El Alto branches off a country road to the southwest and follows the Río Cala Jahuira twenty kilometers upstream. From there branches off a dirt access road from the northeast and reached after a further 35 KilometernSapahaqui. The road follows the course of the river to the village of Sapahaqui Caracato and further north to the Río Caracato Khola and from there another fifty kilometers south-easterly direction over Viloco after Cairoma.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades and a half times:

Because of the historical demographic development in the municipality of Cairoma the Aymara population is predominant, 87.7 % of the population speak the Aymara language.