Otuyo

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

Location in near space

Otuyo is the central place of the Canton Otuyo district ( bolivian: Municipio) Betanzos, Cornelio Saavedra Province. The village lies at an altitude of 2941 m on a tributary of the Río Mataca which flows almost 20 kilometers downstream of Otuyo in the Pilcomayo River.

Geography

Otuyo lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day be stronger than during the year.

The average annual temperature in the region is about 17 ° C (see climate chart Betanzos ), the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 14 ° C in June / July and 19 ° C from November to January. The annual rainfall is about 500 mm, which are months from May to September arid with monthly values ​​below 15 mm, only in January, a precipitation of 100 mm is achieved.

Traffic network

Otuyo lies at a distance of 80 kilometers of road east of Potosi, the capital of the department.

A few kilometers east of Otuyo passes through the national highway Ruta 5, which leaves along the Cordillera Oriental north- south running Ruta 7 at La Palizada and runs in a southwesterly direction to the Chilean border. The Ruta 5 passes through the cities Aiquile, Sucre and Yotala, crossed the Río Pilcomayo and reached after a total of 407 kilometers of the town of Betanzos. From here you via Potosí, Ticatica, Pulacayo and Uyuni on another 491 miles to Chile.

Forty-four kilometers east of Betanzos branches from the Ruta 5 a dirt road to the west, from which after five kilometers, the village Otuyo reached and from there leads to Potobamba.

Population

The population of the town has declined in the past two decades by about a third: