Pocona

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

Location in near space

Pocona is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Pocona in the province of Carrasco. The village lies at an altitude of 2721 m on the right bank of the Río Pocona Mayu, which drains in a southeasterly direction to the Río Mizque out.

Geography

Pocona is located in one of the high valleys of the mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental, which merges into the Bolivian lowlands to the east. The climate of the region is characterized by a typical diurnal climate where the temperature differences between day and night be more pronounced than between seasons.

The average annual temperature is 14 ° C, the monthly values ​​vary between 11 ° C in June / July and 16 ° C in November / December (see climate chart Totora ). The annual precipitation is 600 mm and falls mainly in the summer months from December to February with monthly values ​​of 100-125 mm; which is offset by a dry season from May to October month rainfall of less than 30 mm.

Traffic

Pocona lies at a distance of 110 kilometers of road southeast of Cochabamba, the capital of the department of the same name.

From Cochabamba the paved highway Ruta 7 via Tolata and Paracaya after Epizana and continue on Pojo, Comarapa and La Angostura in the lowland city of Santa Cruz. Ten kilometers northwest of Epizana branches off a dirt road from the south-west and reached after twenty kilometers Pocona.

Population

The population of the town declined slightly in the decade between the last two censuses published. Detailed data of the current census of 2012 are not yet available:

Due to the historically developed population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Pocona 99.1 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.