Copata

Vilaque Copata (also: Copata or Vilaque ) is a village in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Vilaque Copata is a central place in Cantón Vilaque Copata and is located in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Calamarca in the province of flavor at an altitude of 3978 m. North and south of Copata extends the wide plains of the Bolivian highlands, 10 km east of the village rise the first cross bar of the ridge of the Serranía de Sicasica.

Geography

Vilaque Copata located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges, 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 average temperatures fluctuate more during the day than during the year.

The average annual temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C, the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C from November to February (see climate chart Viacha ). The annual precipitation is about 600 mm, the months of May to August are arid with rainfall month of less than 15 mm, in the austral summer - months of January and February monthly rainfall of over 100 mm can be measured.

Traffic network

Vilaque Copata located 52 kilometers by 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 over San Antonio de Senkata to Vilaque Copata and on about Calamarca and Caracollo to Oruro. In Copata branches off a dirt side road from the south-west to the village seven kilometers away Machacamarca.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by more than two-thirds:

Because of the historical population growth, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Calamarca 95.7 % of the population speak the Aymara language.