Guaqui

Guaqui is a village in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The village Guaqui is a central place of the Canton Guaqui in the same district ( bolivian: Municipio) Guaqui and is located in the province of Ingavi at an altitude of 3842 m on Lake Titicaca. Less than two kilometers northwest of Guaqui lakefront is Puerto Guaqui, the most important port on Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and southern Seeabschnitt " Wiñaymarka " located.

Geography

Guaqui is between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Oriental in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano and was hit in the past three millennia of significant water-level fluctuations of the lake. The climate is a typical diurnal climate where the temperature differences during the day be more pronounced as the year progresses.

The annual average temperature is close to 8 ° C (see climate chart Desaguadero ), the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 5 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C from November to March. The mean annual precipitation is about 670 mm and falls mainly during the months of December to March with 100 to 150 mm per month, from May to August, there is a dry season with monthly rainfall less than 15 mm.

Traffic network

Guaqui lies at a distance of 85 kilometers of road west of the capital of the department of La Paz

From La Paz the paved highway Ruta 2 leads in a westerly direction thirteen kilometers to El Alto, from there the Ruta 1 72 kilometers to the southwest over Laja and Tiawanacu further Guaqui.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to nearly double:

For historical reasons, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Guaqui 87.9 % of the population speak the Aymara language ..