Charaña

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

Location in near space

Charaña is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Charaña in the province Pacajes. The village is located on the Bolivian Altiplano to the Chilean border at an altitude of 4067 m on one of the tributaries of the Rio Mauri, which flows into the Río Desaguadero. Ninety kilometers southeast of Charaña rises the Nevado Sajama, with 6,542 m the highest mountain in Bolivia.

Geography

Charaña has a semi-arid climate, because over the course of more than six months, the rainfall for plant growth are not sufficient. The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day be more pronounced than during all seasons.

The mean annual temperature is 8.3 ° C Charaña, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between some 5 ° C from June to July and just over 10 ° C from November to January. The annual rainfall is low 300 mm, the monthly values ​​range from less than 10 mm in the months of May to October and about 50 mm from December to March.

Traffic network

Charaña is located 223 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, from there as dirt road about Caquiaviri and Achiri after Charaña. In addition, runs through Charaña the railway line from La Paz Charaña and the Chilean border town Visviri to the Chilean port city of Arica.

Population

The population of the town was subject to significant fluctuations over the past two decades:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, it presents a significant proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Charaña 83.9 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.