Guanay

Guanay is a country town in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Guanay is the central place of the Canton Guanay district ( bolivian: Municipio) Guanay in the province Larecaja. The village lies on the right bank of the Río Mapiri at an altitude of 420 m near the mouth of the Río Tipuani flowing from the northern slope of the Illampu to the northeast. Both rivers unite a few miles down the river with the Rio Coroico and then form the River Kaka flowing in Puerto Pando into the Río Beni.

Geography

Guanay located northeast of Lake Titicaca on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Real in the lowlands of the Río Beni, one of the major rivers of the Amazon lowlands.

The mean average temperature of the region is about 26 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 1450 mm (see climate chart Caranavi ). The region has no distinct temperature pattern on the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 23 ° C in June and July and 27 ° C from November to January, and the day and night temperatures have only small fluctuations. The monthly rainfall range from less than 50 mm during the months of June and July, and more than 200 mm from December to February.

Traffic network

Guanay lies at a distance of 230 kilometers of road north of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz, the partially paved highway Route 3 leads in a northeasterly direction over 160 km Cotapata to Caranavi, then branches off the unpaved Ruta 25 from which further leads reached after 70 kilometers Guanay and after Mapiri and Apolo.

Population

The population of the town has not changed significantly in the past two decades:

Because of the historical immigration, it presents a not insignificant proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Guanay 32.0 percent of the population speak the Aymara language and only 14.7 percent of Quechua.