Pasorapa

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

Location in near space

Pasorapa is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Pasorapa in the province Campero. The village lies at an altitude of 2,112 m five kilometers southwest of the Laguna Thajra twenty kilometers west of the Río Mizque.

Geography

Pasorapa lies between the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Central. The climate is characterized by a typical diurnal climate, in which the temperature fluctuations between day and night is greater than between seasons.

The average annual temperature of the region is about 20 ° C (see climate chart Omereque ), the monthly average values ​​between 17.5 ° C in July and 22 ° C vary from October to February. The annual rainfall is 500 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to October, monthly values ​​below 20 mm, and a brief humidity from December to February, about 100 mm per month.

Traffic network

Pasorapa lies at a distance of 278 kilometers of road southeast of Cochabamba, the capital of the department.

From Cochabamba the paved highway Ruta 7 results in a southeasterly direction 44 miles to Paracaya, from there the highway Ruta 23 to 146 kilometers further to the southeast across Punata, Arani and Mizque after Aiquile. Four kilometers from Aiquile bends the highway Ruta 5 off eastwards towards Saipina and situated 55 kilometers along the rivers Quebrada Huerla. From here, a 40 km long street southeast to Pasorapa.

Population

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

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region still has a certain amount of Quechua population in the municipality of Pasorapa 23.1 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.