Cañaviri

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

Location in near space

Cañaviri is the central place of Cantón Cañaviri and most populous town of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Umala in the province of flavor. The village lies at an altitude of 3852 m at the northern end of the Serranía de Huayllamarca, an approximately 100 km long ridge that extends on the Altiplano in the west of the city of Oruro in northwest -southeast direction.

Geography

Cañaviri located on the Bolivian plateau between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The climate is typical diurnal climate of equatorial high mountains where the average temperature fluctuations during the day be stronger than during the year.

The mean average temperature of the region is about 7 ° C (see climate chart Patacamaya ), the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C in November / December. The annual precipitation is 460 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm from May to August and at 110 mm in January.

Traffic network

Cañaviri located eight kilometers north of Umala, the administrative seat of the Municipalities, and 120 road kilometers from La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz from the Ruta 4 introduces the paved highway Ruta 2 over 13 miles to El Alto, from there the Ruta 1 in a southerly direction as asphalt road 91 km to Patacamaya, then in a south-westerly direction 16 miles to Cañaviri. From there, the Ruta 4 continues in a westerly direction past the highest mountain of Bolivia, the Sajama, and reached Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border to 173 miles.

Population

The population of the city has increased in the past two decades to approximately twice:

For historical reasons, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Umala 91.2 percent of the population speak the Aymara language ..