Pucará (Vallegrande)

Pucara is a village in the department of Santa Cruz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Pucara is a central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Pucara in the province of Valle Grande and is located at an altitude of 2451 m fifteen kilometers east separated by the ridge of the Serranía Río Grande of bolivian Río Grande, 1500 m above the river course and from this.

Geography

Pucara is located in the valley of the Río Cañada in the southwestern foothills of the Cordillera Oriental. The mean annual temperature of the region is 14 ° C, the annual precipitation is 650 mm (see climate chart Pucara ), the region has a pronounced diurnal climate on.

The monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 11 ° C in July and 16 ° C from November to January. The region has a dry season with monthly values ​​of less than 20 mm from May to September the rainfall maximum values ​​are between 100 and 125 mm in the summer months from December to February.

Traffic network

Pucara is located at a distance of 275 kilometers of road south west of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From Santa Cruz leads the Highway Route 9 a few miles to El Carmen, and from there the Ruta 7 via La Angostura and Samaipata after Mataral. There branches off in a southerly direction from the Ruta 22, which crosses Trigal and Valle Grande to Guadalupe. In Guadalupe, the Ruta 38 branches ( the so-called " Ruta del Che" ) from the south-west, passing Santa Ana 38 km until after Pucara. The road then leads on to the south into the valley of the Rio Grande, crossing the river on a bridge and ends as Ruta 38 provisionally in the small town of Santa Rosa.

The Ruta del Che leads from Pucara from a few kilometers further south to the town of La Higuera, in the Argentine- Cuban revolutionary and guerrilla Ernesto " Che " Guevara was shot dead by members of the Bolivian Army on 9 October 1967.

Population

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

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has no significant concentration of indigenous population. The only notable indigenous group in the village is the Quechua population in the municipality of Pucara 1.8 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.