Papel Pampa

Papel Pampa is a town in the department of La Paz in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Papel Pampa is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Papel Pampa province Gualberto Villarroel. The village lies at an altitude of 3737 m in a vast hill country just west of the north- south oriented ridge Serranía de Huayllamarca which rises to over 4,500 m here.

Geography

Papel Pampa is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate where the temperature variations during the day be more pronounced than in the course of the seasons.

The mean annual precipitation is about 330 mm and falls to 80 percent in the months from December to March (see climate chart Huayllamarca ). The annual average temperature is just under 8 ° C, the monthly average values ​​vary between 4 ° C in June / July and about 10 ° C from November to March.

Traffic network

Papel Pampa is located at a distance of 222 kilometers of road south of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz leads the paved highway Ruta 2 to El Alto, from there the Ruta 1 in a southerly direction as asphalt road to Patacamaya and reached after a total of 170 kilometers Panduro. From there, a dirt road leads 16 km to the southwest to Eucalyptus and reached after a further 36 kilometers Papel Pampa.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the decade between the last two censuses published to three times. Detailed data of the current census of 2012 are not yet available:

Because of the historical population growth, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Papel Pampa 94.5 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.