La Rivera

La Rivera is a village in the department of Oruro in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

La Rivera is the administrative seat of the province of Puerto de Mejillones and central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) La Rivera. La Rivera lies at the mouth of the Rio Mocomocone in the headwaters of the Río Sabaya at the foot of a hundred meters high round mountain, 40 kilometers north-west of the salt lake Salar de Coipasa.

Geography

The climate in the region is semiarid and has a humidity in the summer time, the annual rainfall is 400-500 mm. The average annual temperature is 8 ° C without significant variations during the year, but with considerable daily fluctuations in temperature and frequent freeze-thaw cycles.

The vegetation in the region corresponding to the semi-arid Puna. It is treeless and is composed mainly of thorn bushes, grasses, succulents and cushion plants. It is economically used as a llama, alpaca and sheep pasture.

Traffic network

La Rivera is located 221 kilometers by road from Oruro, the capital of the department of the same name.

From Oruro leads the largely unpaved Ruta 12 highway about 189 km in a southwesterly direction over Ancaravi and Huachacalla to Sabaya and on to Pisiga to the Chilean border. In Sabaya branches off a dirt road leads off to the west and another 32 kilometers along the Río Sabaya to La Rivera and from there to Carangas.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to nearly double:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of La Rivera speak 62.3 % of the population, the Aymara language.