Iscayachi

Iscayachi is a village in the department of Tarija in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Iscayachi is the central place of the Canton Iscayachi district ( bolivian: Municipio) El Puente in the province of Eustaquio Méndez. The village lies at an altitude of 3432 m in the Cordillera de Sama Biological Reserve east of the north- south running ridge of the Cordillera de Sama.

Geography

Iscayachi located in the southeastern part of the barren plateau of the Bolivian Altiplano. The climate is characterized because of the internal situation in cool, dry and by a typical diurnal climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations between day and night are generally significantly greater than the seasonal variation.

The average annual temperature is 11 ° C (see climate chart Yunchará ) and varies only slightly between good 6 ° C in June / July and a good 14 ° C from November to March (see climate chart Yunchará ). The annual rainfall is only about 400 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to October month rainfall below 15 mm, and a humidity from December to February with an 80-95 mm month precipitation.

Traffic

Iscayachi lies at a distance of 52 kilometers of road west of Tarija, the capital of the department of the same name.

From Tarija from the highway Ruta 1 leads to Iscayachi and thence in a northwesterly direction over Camargo and Padcoyo to Potosí. In Iscayachi branches off a dirt road in a southwesterly direction from, crossing the Altiplano de Sama with the salt lakes of Laguna de Tajsara and bends south of the Cordillera de Sama then off to the west, reaching over Yunchará the Ruta 14 to of Villazon on the Argentine border provincial capital Tupiza and continues to Potosí.

Population

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