Caquiaviri

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

Location in near space

Caquiaviri is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Caquiaviri in the province Pacajes. The village is located on the Bolivian altiplano at an altitude of 3966 m on one of the tributaries of the Río Desaguadero, about fifty kilometers south of Lake Titicaca.

Geography

Caquiaviri lies between the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Central in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano. The region has the typical diurnal climate of equatorial high mountains where the average temperature fluctuations during the day clearly significant than seasonal fluctuations.

The average annual temperature of the region is about 7 ° C (see climate chart Comanche ), the monthly values ​​vary between 4 ° C in June / July and nearly 9 ° C in December. The annual rainfall is about 560 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 15 mm in the months of May to August and about 100 mm in January and February.

Traffic network

Caquiaviri is located 100 kilometers by road from La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz leads the paved highway Ruta 2 to El Alto, from there the Ruta 19 in a southwesterly direction as asphalt road to Viacha and further than unpaved runway after Caquiaviri. The Ruta 19 then leads over Achiri after Charaña to the Chilean border.

Population

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

The population of the region belongs to especially the indigenous people of the Aymara. Belonging to Caquiaviri Canton Caquiaviri had in 2001 a population of 2,643 inhabitants, the municipality Caquiaviri 11,901 inhabitants.