Padcaya

Padcaya is a village in the department of Tarija in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Padcaya is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Padcaya and capital of the province Aniceto Arce. The village lies at an altitude of 1998 m at the headwaters of the Río Orosas. To the north- west to the valley of the Río Camacho towards the place is limited by a 20 km long ridge, which has its highest elevation in the Cerro Huancani with 2,960 m.

Geography

Padcaya located in the southern Bolivia on the eastern slopes of the eastern Andes mountain range in the transition to the Bolivian lowlands.

The mean average temperature of the region is 13.5 ° C (see climate chart Padcaya ), the average monthly temperatures range from 9 ° C in June and July and 17 ° C in December and January. The annual precipitation is 630 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September, with monthly rainfall less than 10 mm, and a humidity season from December to February month rainfall more than 100 mm.

Population

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

Traffic network

Padcaya located 51 kilometers by road from Tarija, the capital of the department of the same name in the south.

By Padcaya leads the paved highway Ruta 1, which leads from Lake Titicaca in the north to the cities of Oruro and Potosí until after Bermejo on the Argentine border in the south and has a length of 1,215 kilometers. The border town of Bermejo is located 159 km south-east of Padcaya.

Cityscape

Padcaya is characterized by a mixed architecture, which also includes items from the colonial period. Noteworthy are the remains of an old, standing in the district of the city council building complex in the northwestern part of the city. In him find caves with rock paintings, which are of archaeological interest and point to ancient civilizations.