La Chojlla

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

Location in near space

La Chojlla is a tin mining settlement in the administrative district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the province of Sud Yungas Yanacachi. The village is situated on an altitude of 2270 m on the Rio Takesi, a right tributary of the Río Unduavi that crosses the Río Boopi the Río Beni.

Geography

La Chojlla is located in the Bolivian Yungas on the eastern slopes of the high mountain ridge of the Cordillera Real. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day be more pronounced than during all seasons.

The average annual temperature of the region is 12 ° C, the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between some 10 ° C in June / July and nearly 14 ° C in November / December (see climate chart Yapacani ). The annual rainfall is about 1000 mm, the monthly rainfall between about 10 mm in the months of June and July, and slightly more than 150 mm from December to February.

Traffic network

La Chojlla lies at a distance of 157 kilometers of road east of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved highway Route 3 leads in a northeasterly direction 60 miles to Unduavi, then branches off the unpaved Ruta 25 after Chulumani in a southeasterly direction from, and follows the course of the Río Unduavi. After about 25 kilometers, a side road leads to the right on the situated on a mountain ridge Yanacachi to La Chojlla.

Population

The population of the town was subject to significant fluctuations over the past two decades, due to the sales situation of the corresponding tin mine:

Economy

Center of the village is the mine " La Chojlla ", in which the metals tin and tungsten have been mined in the past. Today the mine is shut down in many areas. The water of the Río Takesi (also: Río Taquesi ) is dammed below the mining town by a causeway. In 2002 there is a hydroelectric power station was completed with an electrical output of 35 megawatts ..