Colquencha

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

Location in near space

Colquencha is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Colquencha in the province of flavor and lies at an altitude of 3989 m. East of Colquencha 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

Colquencha 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 has a pronounced diurnal climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day be more pronounced as the year progresses.

The average annual temperature of the region is 10 ° C (see climate chart Colquencha ), the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 7 ° C in June / July and about 12 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is about 500 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm in the dry season from May to August and 125 mm in January.

Traffic network

Colquencha lies at a distance of 68 kilometers of road south of La Paz, the capital of the department.

From La Paz from the paved highway Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto, from there 39 km to the south of the Ruta 1 to the village Vilaque Copata. From Vilaque Copata you have access via a dirt road to sixteen kilometers in a southwesterly direction over Machacamarca after Colquencha.

Population

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

Because of the historical population growth, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of collana 92.5 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.