Inquisivi

Inquisivi is a village in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia. She was appointed by General Narciso Campero to the capital of the newly founded province Inquisivi on November 2, 1884.

Location in near space

Inquisivi is still the seat of the administration of the province Inquisivi and central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Inquisivi. The village lies at an altitude of 2763 m on a ridge at the Rio khalu near the village of Quime.

Geography

Inquisivi is located on the eastern slopes of the Cordillera Quimsa Cruz, between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands to the east. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are stronger than the seasonal variation.

The mean average temperature of the region is 10.5 ° 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

Inqusivi lies at a distance of 270 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 Unduavi, and from there the Ruta 25 in the south-east 210 kilometers to Inquisivi continue toward Cochabamba. In Inquisivi branches in a southwesterly direction from the Ruta 109, crosses the ridge of the Serranía de Sicasica and ends at Belén on the Route 1, which connects the cities of La Paz and Oruro.

Population

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

The region has a high proportion of indigenous Aymara people, in the municipality of Inquisivi 86.9 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.