Ichoca, Bolivia

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

Location in near space

Ichoca is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Ichoca in the province Inquisivi and lies at an altitude of 3625 m in a side valley of the Río Ichoca, which flows in an easterly direction in the Río Ayopaya.

Geography

Ichoca located on a flank of the Andes mountain range, the Cordillera Central. The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day be more pronounced than in the course of the seasons.

The mean average temperature of the region is over 10 ° C (see climate chart Quime ), the average monthly temperatures range from 7 ° C in June / July and about 13 ° C in November / December. The annual rainfall is about 600 mm, May-August there is a dry season with monthly rainfall less than 15 mm, in the months of January and February fall in the long-term average 120-130 mm of rain.

Traffic network

Ichoca lies at a distance of 275 kilometers of road southeast of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved highway Route 3 leads east to Coroico, and from there the Ruta 25 in the south-east 160 kilometers to Inquisivi and on to Cochabamba. In Inquisivi branches in south west, the Ruta 109 and performs more than 21 kilometers to Quime. From there a dirt gravel road to the south and reached 25 kilometers Ichoca.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by almost half:

Because of the historical population growth, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Quime 92.4 % of the population speak the Aymara language.

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