Catacora

Catacora (also: Catacora Salida ) is a village in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Catacora is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Catacora in the province of José Manuel Pando. The village lies at an altitude of 4268 m near the Peruvian border in the headwaters of the tributaries of the Rio Mauri, which flows south of Lake Titicaca in the Río Desaguadero.

Geography

Catacora is located southwest of Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian Altiplano on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Occidental, which rises here to about 5000 m. The climate of the region is semiarid and a typical diurnal climate, in which the mean temperature variation during the day is more distinct than in the seasonal course.

The mean annual temperature of Catacora is about 8 ° C (see climate chart Charaña ), the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 5 ° C from June to July and 10 ° C from November to January. The annual rainfall is only 300 mm low, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm in the months of May to October and at about 50 mm from December to March.

Traffic network

Catacora is located 188 kilometers by road from La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz highway highway Ruta 19 runs in a southwesterly direction 35 miles to Viacha, from there the Ruta 43 through San Andrés de Machaca and Santiago de Machaca after Catacora and continue until Hito IV on the Peruvian border.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to more than double:

Owned by the village Catacora Canton Catacora had a total population of 809 inhabitants, the population in the municipality of Catacora will have according to the official estimate of the statistical office INE doubled from 1,735 inhabitants in 2001 until the year 2010 to 3,236 inhabitants in 2001. The population of the region belongs to especially the indigenous people of the Aymara, 91.4 percent of the population of the municipality Catacora speak Aymara.