Huacullani

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

Location in near space

Huacullani located in the province Ingavi and is still in front of the place Tiawanacu, the largest town in the county ( bolivian: Municipio) Tiahuanacu. The village lies at an altitude of 3843 m on the shores of Lake Titicaca, just a few kilometers from Tiahuanaco, the internationally renowned World Heritage archaeological site of the pre-Inca culture.

Geography

Huacullani located on the Bolivian Altiplano 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 fluctuation of daily temperatures is more distinct than the course of the year.

The average annual temperature in the region Huacullani on Lake Titicaca is located at 8 ° C (see climate chart Huacullani ), the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is about 600 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 15 mm in the months of May to August and just over 100 mm from December to February.

Traffic network

Huacullani lies at a distance of 97 kilometers of road west of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz leads the paved highway Ruta 2 over thirteen miles to El Alto, from there the Ruta 1 more 63 km west to Tiawanacu. From there a dirt road in a northwesterly direction to Pillapi San Agustín, crossing the coastal range in the north and reached after ten kilometers Huacullani.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to more than five times:

For historical reasons, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Tiahuanacu 95.7 % of the population speak the Aymara language.