Pucarani

Pucarani is a village in the department of La Paz in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Pucarani is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Pucarani and administrative center of the province of Los Andes and is situated on the right bank of a tributary of the Río Nurancana flowing into the southeastern portion of Lake Titicaca. The village lies at an altitude of 3865 m fifteen kilometers southeast of Lake Titicaca.

Geography

Pucarani located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day be more pronounced than in sequence.

The average annual temperature of the region is located at 9 ° C, the average monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in November and December (see climate chart Batallas ). The annual precipitation is about 600 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 15 mm during the months of June to August and between 100 and 120 mm from December to February.

Traffic network

Pucarani is located at a distance of fifty kilometers of road north-west of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the highway Rzuta 2 on El Alto leads in a north-westerly direction thirty km to Villa Vilaque, then branches off a side road continues to the northwest and reaches after twenty kilometers, the village Pucarani.

Just south of Pucarani is located south of the road in flat terrain, a 3.2 -kilometer tarmac touring car race track.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by about two-thirds:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Pucarani 96.7 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.