Tacachi

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

Location in near space

Tacachi is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Tacachi in the province Punata and is at the southeastern edge of the 490 km ² large fertile plateau of the Valle Alto. The village lies at an altitude of 2813 m approximately ten kilometers from the edge of the Cordillera Oriental, which rises east of Villa Rivero to over 3,600 m and 4,100 m north of Punata on.

Geography

Tacachi 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 season from December to February 90 to 110 mm month precipitation.

Traffic network

Tacachi is located 58 road kilometers 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 km to San Benito, from where a dirt road six kilometers to the south-east to Punata and again eleven kilometers further on Villa Rivero after Tacachi.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to more than double:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Tacachi 95.3 % of the population speak the Quechua language.