Taraco, La Paz

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

Location in near space

Taraco is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Taraco in the province Ingavi. The village lies on the Taraco Peninsula in the southern part of Lake Titicaca at an altitude of 3871 m at the edge of the two -mile-wide coastal plain. 24 km to the southeast lies Tiahuanaco, the internationally renowned World Heritage archaeological site of the pre-Inca culture.

Geography

Taraco located on the Bolivian Altiplano on Lake Titicaca between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east.

The mean average temperature in the region of Lake Titicaca is around 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is 500-600 mm (see climate chart Juliaca ). The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 7 ° C in July and 12 ° C in December. the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm in the months of May to August and just over 100 mm from January to February.

Traffic network

Taraco is located 100 kilometers by road from La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz leads the paved highway Ruta 2 over thirteen miles to El Alto, from there the Ruta 1 more 63 km west to Tiwanacu. From there a dirt road about Pillapi San Agustín in a northwesterly direction to Taraco.

Population

The population of the town has more than doubled in the decade from 1992 through 2001:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Tiahuanacu 97.1 % of the population speak the Aymara language.