Sapahaqui

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

Location in near space

Sapahaqui is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Sapahaqui in the province Loayza. The village lies at an altitude of Sapahaqui 3136 m at the confluence of the river, and the river Chacoma Sapahaqui in the northern foothills of the Serranía de Sicasica.

Geography

Sapahaqui lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands to the east. The region has a typical diurnal climate, ie that the temperature difference between day and night is greater than the temperature difference between seasons.

The mean average temperature of the region is 11 ° C and varies between 8-9 ° C in June and 12-13 ° C in November. The annual rainfall is 500-600 mm, with a pronounced dry season during the months of June and July, and monthly rainfall of over 100 mm in January.

Traffic network

Sapahaqui located 80 kilometers by road from La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved highway Ruta 1 leads south across El Alto to the south. Twelve kilometers south of El Alto branches off a country road to the southwest and follows the Río Cala Jahuira twenty kilometers upstream. From there branches off a dirt access road from the northeast and reached after a further 35 kilometers Sapahaqui.

Population

The population of the town has increased over the decade from 1992 to 2001 by about 50 percent. She was 149 inhabitants in the census in 1992 and 219 inhabitants at the 2001 census. Recent data are not yet available. Because of the historical population development, the Aymara population is predominant in the region, in the municipality of Sapahaqui 96.7 % of the population speak the Aymara language.