Parotani

Parotani is a country town in the Cochabamba Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Parotani is the largest town in the canton Itapaya and is located in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Sipe Sipe in the province Quillacollo. The city lies at an altitude of 2490 m in a valley on the right, the western shore of the Río Rocha, the main source river of the Bolivian Río Grande.

Geography

Parotani is located in the Bolivian Cordillera Central in the transition region to the Bolivian lowlands. The region has a typical diurnal climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day be more pronounced as the year progresses.

The mean average temperature of the region is about 20 ° C (see climate chart Capinota ) and varies only slightly between 16 ° C in June and July and over 22 ° C in November and December. The annual precipitation is about 550 mm and has a pronounced dry season from April to November month rainfall of less than 10 mm, only in the humidity time from December to March fall up to 140 mm month precipitation.

Traffic network

Parotani located 37 kilometers by road from Cochabamba, the capital of the department in southwestern direction.

From Cochabamba leads in a westerly direction the paved highway Ruta 4 of the city Quillacollo after Parotani where branch off toward the south country roads to Capinota, Arque and San Pedro de Buena Vista. West of Parotani leads the Ruta 4 further Caracollo, where she encounters the Ruta 1, which traverses the Altiplano from north to south and makes connections to La Paz, Oruro and Potosí.

Population

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

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Sipe Sipe 83.9 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.