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Mojinete is a village in the department of Potosí in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Mojinete is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Mojinete in the province Sur Lípez. The village lies at an altitude of 3318 m on the Rio Mojinete, a left tributary of the Río San Juan del Oro, which is one of the headwaters of the Río Pilcomayo.

Geography

Mojinete located on the Bolivian Altiplano in one of the southern valleys of the mountain range of the Cordillera de Lípez near the Argentine border. 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 just under 8 ° C (see climate chart Mojinete ), the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between about 3 ° C in June / July and 11 ° C from December to February. The annual rainfall is low 230 mm, the monthly rainfall less than 10 mm in the winter half year from April to October, reached only from December to February values ​​of 50 to 60 mm.

Traffic network

Mojinete lies at a distance of 540 kilometers of road south of Potosi, the capital of the department.

From Potosí from the highway Ruta 5 runs in a southwesterly direction over 208 km Ticatica to Uyuni, from where the Ruta 21 to the southeast 96 km to Atocha and another 100 kilometers to Tupiza. About 25 miles behind Atocha branches off a dirt road in Escoriani from southwest and operates 40 miles to San Vicente and a further 80 kilometers to the provincial capital of San Pablo de Lípez. From there, a path link leads first in the 28km Guadalupe and thence in a westerly direction again about 50 miles to Mojinete.

Population

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

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Mojinete 94.5 percent of the population speak the Quechua language. The place is of 119 families (2006 ) inhabits living primarily from agricultural cultivation.