Italaque

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

Location in near space

Italaque is the central place of the Canton Italaque district ( bolivian: Municipio) Mocomoco in the province of Heliodorus Camacho. The village lies at an altitude of 3538 m in the southern foothills of the Cordillera Apolobamba fifteen kilometers northeast of Lake Titicaca.

Geography

Italaque located on the Bolivian Altiplano at the western edge of the Cordillera Real. The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate, in which the mean temperature variation during the day is more distinct than in the course of the seasons.

The average annual temperature of the region is located at 8 ° C (see climate chart Puerto Acosta ), the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 5 ° C in July and 10 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is about 750 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm during the months of June and July, and more than 100 mm from December to March.

Traffic network

Italaque lies at a distance of 200 kilometers of road north-west of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the highway Ruta 2 on El Alto leads in a northwesterly direction 30 miles to Huarina, from there the Ruta 16 through Achacachi and Puerto Carabuco after Escoma near the mouth of the Río Suches in Lake Titicaca. From Escoma branches from a non- paved road to the north and reached after 33 kilometers Italaque.

Population

The population of the town declined slightly in the decade between the last two censuses:

The population of the region belongs to especially the indigenous people of the Aymara, 97.0 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.