Culpina

Culpina is a country town in the department of Chuquisaca in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Culpina is the central place of the district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the province of Sud Cinti Culpina and lies at an altitude of 1680 m in the basin of Culpina, an endorheic basin with the salt lake Salar de Culpina in the southwestern part. The basin of Culpina is bounded on the east and south by the valleys of the Río Pilaya, on the west by the Río Tumusla in the Central Valley of Camargo.

Geography

The basin of Culpina located in semi-arid transition zone between the semi -humid mountain forests of the eastern mountain ranges of Bolivia and the arid Altiplano.

The annual rainfall can vary 350-550 mm and occur mainly during the months of November to March; the winter months of May to August are largely rainless (see climate chart Culpina ). The monthly average temperatures are in the basin between about 20 ° C in December and 5-8 ° C in June / July.

Population

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

Economy

The kleinparzellige field crops in the Basin of Culpina takes all the great alluvial fan of the River Culpina which drains coming from the north-western mountain border to the Salar de Culpina out. The unused acreage covers an area of ​​approximately 5 km x 15 km.

The valley of Culpina produces more than 80 percent of the Bolivian onion variety Cebolla rosada.

Water supply

The drinking water supply of the city and the irrigation of agricultural land is secured by a dam two kilometers to the northeast above the city, which was completed in 1998 with funds from the German development bank KfW. It has a length of 2,500 m and a maximum width of 500 m and has a dam height of 40 m.