Callapa

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

Location in near space

Callapa is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Callapa in the province Pacajes. The village lies at an altitude of 3797 m at kilometer 192 of the Río Desaguadero at its northern left bank, where the highway Ruta 4 crosses the river.

Geography

Callapa located 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 mean fluctuation of day and night temperatures is more distinct than that of the seasonal fluctuations.

The average annual temperature of the region lies at 8-9 ° C (see climate chart Callapa ), the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 5 ° C in July and well 10 ° C from November to March. The annual rainfall is about 400 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm in the months of May to August and at 100 mm in December.

Traffic network

Callapa is located 164 kilometers by road from La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz leads the paved highway Ruta 2 over 13 km to El Alto, from there the Ruta 1 in a southerly direction as asphalt road 91 km to Patacamaya. From there, the Ruta 4 branches off in a southwesterly direction and reached after 57 km the Río Desaguadero and Callapa. From here, the Ruta 4 continues west to Sajama, the highest mountain in Bolivia and Tambo Quemado according to the Chilean border.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the decade between the last two censuses to a multiple of:

For historical reasons, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Callapa 97.3 percent of the population speak the Aymara language ..