Punata

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

Location in near space

Punata is the seat of the administration of the province Punata and central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Punata on the 490 km ² large fertile plateau of the Valle Alto. The village lies at an altitude of 2730 m approximately ten kilometers from the edge of the Cordillera Oriental, which rises east of Punata to over 3,600 m and 4,100 m north of Punata on.

Geography

Punata lies in the transitional area between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian lowlands to the east.

The mean average temperature of the region is almost 18 ° C (see climate chart Cochabamba ) and varies only slightly between 14 ° C in June and July and 20 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is about 450 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September, with monthly rainfall less than 10 mm, and a humidity from December to February with an 90-110 mm monthly rainfall.

Traffic network

Punata lies at a distance of 47 kilometers of road southeast of Cochabamba, the capital of the department of the same name.

From Cochabamba the paved highway Ruta 7 results in a southeasterly direction 41 miles to San Benito, from where a dirt road six kilometers to the southeast to Punata. Punata is connected by a railway line with Cochabamba, which leads over Punata addition, another eight kilometers to Arani to the edge of the Cordillera.

Population

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

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Punata 92.6 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.