Cohoni

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

Location in near space

Cohoni is the central place of the Canton Cohoni district ( bolivian: Municipio) Palca in the province of Murillo. The village lies at an altitude of 3560 m above the Río de la Paz, which, coming towards the Río Beni flows of the capital, La Paz ago Illimani past in a northeasterly towards.

Geography

Cohoni located on a plateau of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central, 8 km southwest of Illimani. The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate, in which the mean temperature fluctuation during the day more marked as the year progresses.

The average annual temperature of the region is about 10 ° C (see climate chart La Paz ) and fluctuates between 8 ° C in July and about 12 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is about 600 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to August and a humidity from December to February.

Traffic network

Cohoni is located 60 road kilometers southeast of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From Cohoni from leading a dirt country road in steep switchbacks to the Río de la Paz, passing the ruins of buildings from the time of the Wars of Liberation ( " Caballerizas del Mariscal Andrés de Santa Cruz " ), and crosses 14 km of the river at an altitude of 2390 m at Tahuapalca. The road winds on the opposite side of the river looking up again and reached the 3782 m high collana Santiago de after a further 20 km. From there, the road leads 26 kilometers more than high road to the eastern suburbs of La Paz, overcoming heights of 4300 m.

Population

The population of Cohoni has risen in the past two decades by nearly a third:

Because of the historical distribution of population, the region has a high proportion Aymara population in the municipality of Palca 94.1 % of the population speak the Aymara language ( 2001).