Pasto Pata

Pasto Pata is a village in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Pasto Pata is the second largest town in the county ( bolivian: municipality ) in the province of Sud Yungas Chulumani. The village lies at an altitude of 1693 m twenty kilometers away from the provincial capital Chulumani in a northeasterly direction.

Geography

Pasto Pata is located in the Bolivian Yungas on the eastern slopes of the high mountain ridge of the Cordillera Real. The climate is a typical diurnal climate, in which the mean variation of daily temperatures is more distinct than the seasonal variation.

The mean average temperature of the region is 21 ° C (see climate chart Chulumani ), the average monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 18 ° C in July and 22 ° C in December. The annual rainfall is about 1150 mm, the monthly rainfall between about 20 mm in the months of June and July, and more than 150 mm from December to February.

Traffic network

Pasto Pata is located at a distance of 130 kilometers of road east of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved highway Route 3 leads in a northeasterly direction 60 miles to Unduavi, then branches off the unpaved Ruta 25 in a southeasterly direction from along the Río Unduavi and reached after 70 kilometers Chulumani. From there a dirt road about twenty kilometers Tajma to Pasto Pata and on to La Asunta.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the decade between the two most recent censuses by about a third:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Chulumani 49.9 % of the population speak the Aymara language.