Quiabaya

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

Location in near space

Quiabaya is a central location in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Quiabaya in the province Larecaja. The village lies at an altitude of 3710 m in a valley cut ten kilometers above the Río Mapiri flowing to the Río Beni down.

Geography

Quiabaya lies to the east of the Altiplano in Bolivia " Cordillera " ( Cordillera Real), which in turn is part of the Cordillera Central. The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate where the temperature variations during the day be more pronounced as the year progresses.

The average annual temperature of the region is almost 14 ° C (see climate chart Mocomoco ), the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 11 ° C in June / July and 15 ° C from October to March. The annual precipitation is about 750 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 20 mm from July to August and at 100-150 mm from December to March.

Traffic

Quiabaya lies at a distance of about 165 road kilometers north-west of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved highway Ruta 2 leads in a north-westerly direction seventy kilometers to Huarina, then branches north along Ruta 16 from that reached after 23 kilometers Achacachi. Shortly after Achacachi branches off to the northeast from a country road that reaches the town of Sorata on Warisata after about virerzig kilometers. From there, the road continues over Quiabaya after Mapiri in the Yungas on the eastern edge of the mountain range of the Cordillera Central.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the decade between the last two censuses published on more than twice:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Quiabaya 94.6 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.