Cuchu Ingenio

Cuchu Ingenio (also: Khuchu Ingenio ) is a village in the department of Potosí in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Cuchu Ingenio is the central place of the Canton Cuchu Ingenio and is located in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Caiza "D" in the province of José María Linares. The village lies at an altitude of 3679 m on the left bank of the flowing southward Río Jolun Mayu and the headwaters of the Río La lava.

Geography

Cuchu Ingenio is located at the southern end of the Andes mountain range, the Cordillera Central. The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate, in which the mean temperature variation during the day is more distinct than in the course of the seasons.

The average annual temperature of the region is 11 to 12 ° C (see climate chart Potosí ) and varies only slightly between 8 ° C in June and July and 13 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is about 350 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to October month rainfall below 15 mm, and a humidity from December to February with an average of 65 to 75 mm month precipitation.

Traffic network

Cuchu Ingenio is located at a distance of 36 kilometers of road south of Potosi, the capital of the department.

From Potosí from the 1,215 -kilometer-long paved highway Ruta 1 leads south to Cuchu Ingenio and then continue on to Tarija and Bermejo Belén on the Argentine border. In Belén a road branches off to the northeast, after seven miles reached the provincial capital of Pune. In Cuchu Ingenio branches off to the south of the Ruta 14, which leads over Vitichi, Tumusla and Tupiza to the border town Villazón.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by nearly a third:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Caiza "D" 97.0 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.