Colquiri

Colquiri is a small town in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Colquiri is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Colquiri in the province Inquisivi. The village lies at an altitude of 4303 m between the mountain valleys of the southern Serranía de Sicasica near the lake Laguna Bornuni.

Geography

Colquiri lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands 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 Colquiri is 7 ° C (see climate chart Colquiri ), the average monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 3 ° C in June and July and 9 ° C from November to February. The annual precipitation is 500 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm in the dry season from May to August and 100 to 120 mm in January and February.

In the tin deposits of Colquiri is, inter alia, the rare colquiriite found a fluoride mineral which occurs in association with sphalerite and pyrite.

Traffic network

Colquiri lies at a distance of 226 kilometers of road southeast of La Paz, the capital of the department.

At La Paz passes the paved highway Ruta 1, which leads from Lake Titicaca from the southeast over Caracollo and the department capitals of Oruro, Potosí and Tarija Bermejo according to the Argentine border. Colquiri is connected to the Route 1 over the unpaved highway Ruta 44, which leads 42 km to the southwest of Colquiri after Caracollo.

Population

Due to the production figures of tin mining in the region, the population of the small town Colquiri has been subject to substantial fluctuations in the past two decades:

The population of the region belongs to especially the indigenous people of the Aymara, 82.9 percent of the population of the municipality Colquiri speak Aymara.