Coacollo

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

Location in near space

Coacollo is the largest town in the county ( bolivian: Municipio) Taraco in the province Ingavi. The village lies on the Taraco Peninsula in the southern part of Lake Titicaca at an altitude of 3846 m on the edge of one to two kilometer-wide coastal plain. 30 km to the southeast lies Tiahuanaco, the internationally renowned World Heritage archaeological site of the pre-Inca culture.

Geography

Coacollo is between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Oriental. The climate is a typical diurnal climate where the average temperature differences be more pronounced during the day than during the year.

The annual average temperature is close to 8 ° C, the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 7 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C from November to March. The mean annual precipitation is about 670 mm (see climate chart Desaguadero ) and falls mainly during the months of December to March, with more than 100 mm per month, from May to August, there is a dry season with monthly rainfall less than 15 mm.

Traffic network

Coacollo is located 105 kilometers by road from La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz leads the paved highway Ruta 2 over 13 km to El Alto, from there the Ruta 1 and another 63 kilometers to the west to Tiwanacu. From there a dirt road about Pillapi San Agustín and Taraco in a northwesterly direction to Coacollo.

Population

The population of Coacollo has risen by about a third in the last decade:

For historical reasons, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Tiahuanacu 97.1 % of the population speak the Aymara language ..