Malla, Bolivia

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

Location in near space

Malla is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Malla in the province Loayza. The village Malla is located at an altitude of 3815 m in the eastern valleys of the Serranía de Sicasica near the Cordillera Quimsa Cruz.

Geography

Malla is located between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands to the east. The region exhibits a typical day time environment, where the temperature differences between day and night is greater than the average temperature difference between seasons.

The mean average temperature of the region is located at 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is 500-600 mm (see climate chart Viloco ), with a pronounced dry season from May to August, monthly values ​​of less than 15 mm of precipitation.

Traffic network

Malla is located at a distance of 215 kilometers of road southeast of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved highway Ruta 1 leads south across El Alto to the south. Twelve kilometers south of El Alto branches off a country road to the southwest and follows the Río Cala Jahuira twenty kilometers upstream. From there branches off a dirt access road from the northeast and reached after a further 35 kilometers Sapahaqui. The road follows the course of the river to the village of Sapahaqui Caracato and further north to the Río Caracato Khola and from there another 75 km in a south-easterly direction over Viloco by Malla.

Population

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

Because of the historical demographic development in the municipality of Malla Aymara population is predominant, 95.2 % of the population speak the Aymara language.