Collana

Collana is a country town in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Collana is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) collana in the province of flavor and lies at an altitude of 3964 m. East of collana extends the wide plains of the Bolivian highlands to the Serranía de Sicasica, directly west of the town runs a north- south oriented mountain bar which rises to 4,500 m.

Geography

Collana located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate, in which the mean fluctuation of the temperatures during the day more marked as the year progresses.

The mean average temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C (see climate chart Viacha ), the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in November. The annual rainfall is around 600 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm in the months of June and July and over 100 mm in January and February.

Traffic network

Collana located 64 kilometers by road from La Paz, the capital of the department.

From La Paz from the paved highway Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto, from there 33 km to the south of the Ruta 1 to the town of San Antonio de Senkata. From San Antonio can be reached via a dirt road 18 km to the southwest after collana.

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 collana 86.5 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.