Tacopaya

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

Location in near space

Tacopaya is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Tacopaya in the province Arque. The village lies at an altitude of 3177 m on the right, the southern shore of the Río Arque, which is in its further course, the Río Grande.

Geography

Tacopaya lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Cordillera Oriental in the east on the northern foothills of the Cordillera Central.

The climate of the region is semiarid and a typical diurnal climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are more pronounced than the differences in temperature during the year (see climate chart Arque ).

The average annual temperature is around 10-11 ° C, with monthly averages in June / July are as low as 6-7 ° C and the summer values ​​in January / February at 13 ° C. The annual precipitation is about 600 mm, rain richest month is January with 140 mm; May to August there is a dry season with monthly rainfall of less than 10 mm.

Traffic network

Tacopaya is located 107 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 of the city Quillacollo after Parotani and on to Caracollo, where she encounters the Ruta 1, which traverses the Altiplano from north to south and establishes connection to La Paz, Oruro and Potosí. South of Parotani branches off to the south from a paved road and reaches 24 km from the city Capinota. From there, a dirt road leads further up the Río Arque, reaching over Arque and Irpa Irpa after 46 km, the village Tacopaya.

Population

About the population of the village are from the past two decades hardly any reliable figures before:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Tacopaya 99.5 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.