Combaya

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

Location in near space

Combaya is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Combaya in the province Larecaja. The village lies at an altitude of 3217 m on a plateau above one of the tributaries of the Río San Cristobal, whose water flow in the course in the Río Mapiri.

Geography

Combaya lies to the east of the Bolivian Altiplano in the Cordillera Muñecas, which belongs to the high mountain range of the Cordillera Central. The region exhibits a pronounced daytime air, wherein the average temperature variation during the day than in the more marked flow of the seasons.

The mean annual temperature of the region is 18 ° C (see climate chart Sorata ), the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 15 ° C in July and 20 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is 650 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm during the months of June and July and 100-125 mm from December to February.

Traffic

Combaya lies at a distance of 132 kilometers of road north-west of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved highway Ruta 2 leads in a northwesterly direction 70 km to Huarina, then branches north along Ruta 16 from that reached after 23 kilometers Achacachi and then continue on the eastern shore of Lake Titicaca direction Ancoraimes leads. After 17 kilometers turn down a dirt road to the north-east in the valleys of the Cordillera from Muñecas happens Sorejaya and reached after 22 kilometers Combaya.

Population

The population of the town has increased between the last two censuses by about half:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Combaya 98.5 % of the population speak the Aymara language.