Puerto Acosta

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

Location in near space

Puerto Acosta is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Puerto Acosta and administrative center of the province of Heliodorus Camacho, and lies on the right bank of the Río Huaycho which opens at Villapuni in Lake Titicaca. The village lies at an altitude of 3841 m on the northeastern shore of Lake Titicaca fifteen kilometers southeast of Huyacollo, located on the border with Peru.

Geography

Puerto Acosta is on the Bolivian Altiplano at the western edge of the Cordillera Real.

The mean average temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 850 mm (see climate chart Puerto Acosta ). The region has a pronounced diurnal climate on the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between about 6 ° C in July and well 10 ° C from November to January. The monthly rainfall range from less than 15 mm in June to August and a humidity from December to March values ​​120-170 mm.

Traffic network

Puerto Acosta is at a distance of 185 kilometers of road north-west of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved highway ' Ruta 2 runs north 70 km to Huarina, from there the Ruta 16 through Achacachi and Puerto Carabuco about another 95 km on mostly unpaved roads to Puerto Acosta.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by nearly half:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Puerto Acosta 99.1 % of the population speak the Aymara language.