Puerto Pérez

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

Location

Puerto Pérez is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Puerto Pérez in the province of Los Andes and is at an altitude of 3833 m on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Southeast of Puerto Pérez extends the wide plains of the Bolivian highlands to over El Alto and La Paz addition, forty kilometers east of Puerto Pérez runs the mountain of the Cordillera Muñecas bolt that rises here with the Huayna Potosí to over 6,000 m.

Geography

Puerto Pérez is 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

Puerto Pérez is at a distance of 69 kilometers of road north-west of La Paz, the capital of the department.

From La Paz from the paved highway Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto and reached after a total of 61 kilometers of the north- westernmost Batallas. From here a dirt road branches off to the northwest and reached after a further eight kilometers Puerto Pérez and Lake Titicaca.

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 a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Puerto Pérez 97.8 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.