San Pedro de Curahuara de Carangas

San Pedro de Curahuara is a village in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

San Pedro de Curahuara is the administrative seat of the province Gualberto Villarroel and central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) San Pedro de Curahuara. The village lies at an altitude of 3897 m at the northeastern end of the Serrania de Huayllamarca, of a 100- kilometer-long ridge that extends on the Altiplano in the west of the city of Oruro in northwest -southeast direction.

Geography

San Pedro de Curahuara is located in the Bolivian highlands between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east.

The mean average temperature of the region is located at 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 450 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 7 ° C in July and 11 ° C in December. The monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm during the months of June and July and close to 100 mm from December to February.

Traffic network

San Pedro de Curahuara located 160 kilometers by road from La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz from the Ruta 4 introduces the paved highway Ruta 2 to El Alto, from there the Ruta 1 in a southerly direction as asphalt road to Patacamaya, then in a southwesterly direction to Cañaviri. From there take the dirt road to the south over Umala after Chilahuala and crosses the Río Desaguadero there until it reaches sixty kilometers San Pedro de Curahuara. The track continues in a southwesterly direction to the Totora, the administrative center of San Pedro de Totora province in the department of Oruro.

Population

The population of the town has increased over the decade from 1992 to 2001 by about 25 percent. She was 238 inhabitants in the census in 1992 and 292 inhabitants at the 2001 census. Recent data are not yet available.

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of San Pedro de Curahuara 96.8 % of the population speak the Aymara language.