Sicaya, Cochabamba

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

Location in near space

Sicaya is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Sicaya in the province Capinota. The village lies at an altitude of 2633 m in the valley of the Río Arque, one of the headwaters of the Bolivian Río Grande, at the mouth of the Río Sapo Mayu.

Geography

Sicaya is located in one of the northern foothills of the Bolivian Cordillera Central. The climate is semi-arid and a typical diurnal climate where the temperature differences between day and night be more pronounced than between seasons.

Sicaya has an average annual rainfall of 600 mm and a mean annual temperature of 11 ° C. The dry season lasts from May to September and has lower temperatures, but frost-free. The rainy season lasts from December to February and is warmer than the annual average (see climate chart Arque ).

Traffic network

Sicaya located 86 kilometers by road from Cochabamba, the capital of the department in southwestern direction.

From Cochabamba leads in a westerly direction the paved highway Ruta 4, which has met with Caracollo on the Ruta 1, which traverses the Altiplano from north to south. 37 km southwest of Cochabamba branches at Parotani a dirt road in a southeasterly direction and reaches 30 kilometers, the city Capinota. The road leads another seventeen miles above Irpa Irpa and Orcoma the Río Arque up to Kara Kara, where one crosses the river bed at the mouth of the Río Sapo Mayu in the Sicaya two kilometers away.

Population

The population of the city has increased by about 40 percent in the penultimate decade:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Sicaya 98.7 % of the population speak the Quechua language.