Irpa Irpa

Irpa Irpa is a country town in the Cochabamba Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Irpa Irpa is the second largest town in the county ( bolivian: Municipio) Capinota in the province Capinota. The village lies at an altitude of 2465 m on the north bank of the River Arque, which is one of the source rivers of the Bolivian Río Grande. The city is located in the immediate vicinity of the provincial capital Capinota.

Geography

Irpa Irpa is located in the Bolivian Cordillera Central in the transition region to the Bolivian lowlands. The region has a typical diurnal climate where the temperature variations during the day clearly fail than the average fluctuations over the year.

The average annual temperature of the region is about 20 ° C (see climate chart Capinota ) and varies only slightly between 16 ° C in June and July and over 22 ° C in November and December. The annual precipitation is about 550 mm and has a pronounced dry season from April to November month rainfall of less than 10 mm, only in the humidity time from December to March fall up to 140 mm month precipitation.

Traffic network

Irpa Irpa lies at a distance of 70 kilometers of road southwest of Cochabamba, the capital of the department.

From Cochabamba leads in a westerly direction the paved highway Ruta 4, which has met with Caracollo on the Ruta 1, which traverses the Altiplano from north to south. About 35 kilometers southwest of Cochabamba branches at Parotani a dirt road in a southeasterly direction and reaches 30 kilometers, the city Capinota. Irpa Irpa is located three kilometers southwest of Capinota.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by about two-thirds:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Capinota 90.9 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.

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