Caranavi

Caranavi is a small town in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Caranavi is the central place of the Canton Caranavi district ( bolivian: Municipio) Caranavi and seat of government of the province Caranavi. The city is located in the Bolivian Yungas at an altitude of 613 m on the right bank of the Río Coroico, on the eastern slopes of the Cordillera Real, which rises west of Caranavi in several peaks over 6,000 m.

Geography

Caranavi is located in the transition zone between the Andean Altiplano and the Bolivian lowlands. The climate is a typical diurnal climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day be more pronounced as the year progresses.

The average annual temperature is 25.5 ° C and varies only slightly during the year between 23 ° C in June / July and 27 ° C in November / December (see climate chart Caranavi ). The annual precipitation reaches a height of nearly 1500 mm, and up to a short dry season in June / July, the climate is humid all year with monthly rainfall of about 200 mm from December to February.

Traffic network

Caranavi located 160 kilometers by road from La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz from the paved highway Route 3 leads in a northeasterly direction 52 km to Cotapata, from there as gravel road on the Río Mamoré over 108 km to 442 km to Caranavi and more to Trinidad.

In Caranavi branches from the Route 3 to the northwest 332 km from Ruta 26, which leads to Apolo on Guanay and Mapiri and meets on the Ruta 16, which runs along the Peruvian border.

Population

The population of the city has increased in recent decades to a multiple of:

Because of the historical population growth, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Caranavi 57.8 % of the population speak the Aymara language.