Mocomoco

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

Location in near space

Mocomoco is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Mocomoco in the province of Heliodorus Camacho. The village lies at an altitude of 3302 m in the southern foothills of the Cordillera Apolobamba, 30 km north-east of Lake Titicaca.

Geography

The municipality Mocomoco located on the Bolivian Altiplano at an average altitude of 3500 m, on the western edge of the Cordillera Real. The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate where the temperature variations during the day be more pronounced as the year progresses.

The mean average temperature of the municipality lies at just 14 ° C (see climate chart Mocomoco ), the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 11 ° C in June / July and 15 ° C from October to March. The annual precipitation is about 750 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 20 mm from July to August and at 100-150 mm from December to March.

Traffic network

Mocomoco lies at a distance of 215 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 dirt road to the north, reaching over Italaque after 48 kilometers Mocomoco.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the decade between the last two censuses published by about a third. Detailed data of the current census of 2012 are not yet available:

The population of the region belongs to especially the indigenous people of the Aymara.