Catavi (La Paz)

Catavi is a village in the department of La Paz in the South American landlocked Bolivia.

Location in near space

Catavi is the central place of the Canton Catavi district ( bolivian: Municipio) Pucarani in the province of Los Andes. The city lies at an altitude of 3843 m fifteen kilometers southeast of Lake Titicaca, from where the wide plains of the Bolivian highlands extends beyond to the southeast on El Alto and Calamarca.

Geography

Catavi located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The region's climate is subhumid and a typical diurnal climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day be more pronounced as the year progresses.

The mean average temperature of the region is located at 9 ° C (see climate chart Batallas ), the monthly average values ​​vary only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in November and December. The annual precipitation is about 600 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 15 mm during the months of June to August and between 100 and 120 mm from December to February.

Traffic network

Catavi located 64 kilometers by road west of La Paz, the capital of the department.

From La Paz from the paved highway Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto and another five kilometers to the northwest. Then the Ruta 1 branches off to the south-west and crosses Laja after Tambillo. From there you can reach via a side road in a northwesterly direction, after twelve kilometers Catavi.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by more than half:

Because of the historical population growth, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Pucarani 97.2 % of the population speak the Aymara language.