Curahuara de Carangas
Curahuara de Carangas ( Aymara: " Quri wara q'arä anqas " ) is a village in the department of Oruro in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
Curahuara de Carangas is the central place of the homonymous district ( bolivian: Municipio) Curahuara de Carangas in the province of Sajama and lies at an altitude of 3914 m at the confluence of Río Sulloma and Río Pastara, 60 kilometers northeast of the stratovolcano Sajama, with 6542 m the highest mountain Bolivia.
Geography
Curahuara de Carangas is located in the Bolivian highlands 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 temperature fluctuations during the day be stronger than during the year.
The average annual temperature of the region is located at 8 ° C, the monthly values vary only slightly between 5 ° C in July and 11 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is about 330 mm (see climate chart ), the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm during the months of June and July and close to 100 mm from December to February.
Traffic network
Curahuara de Carangas lies at a distance of 165 kilometers of road west of Oruro, the capital of the department of the same name.
From Oruro from the unpaved highway Ruta 31 leads in a westerly direction over La Joya directly after Curahuara. She meets four kilometers north of Curahuara on the Ruta 4, which leads over 189 km of Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border to Patacamaya, which in turn lies at the Ruta 1, halfway between the seat of government La Paz and Oruro.
Population
The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by about two-thirds:
For historical reasons, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the province of Sajama 90.4 percent of the population speak the Aymara language ..
Tourism
Curahuara de Carangas houses one of the oldest churches in South America, the "Sistine Chapel of the Altiplano ", which goes back to the year 1606. Since the climate of the region is dry and cool, the colors of the paintings have across well preserved in the church for four centuries.