Tiquipaya

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

Location in near space

Tiquipaya located in the province of the same name in the municipality of Quillacollo Tiquipaya on the 300-km ², fertile and densely populated plateau of Cochabamba. The village lies at an altitude of 2649 m on the southern edge of the National Park Tunari ( Parque Nacional Tunari, PNT ), the ridge rises up to 5,000 m high.

10 km southeast of the city of Cochabamba Tiquipaya, capital of the department, and 15 km to the southwest lies the city Quillacollo.

Geography

Tiquipaya is located in the transition zone between the Andes mountain range, the Cordillera Central and the Bolivian lowlands. The climate of the plateau of Cochabamba is a subtropical mountain climate, which is characterized more by fluctuations in precipitation than by temperature differences during the year.

The mean average temperature of the region is about 18 ° C (see climate chart Cochabamba ) and varies only slightly between 14 ° C in June / July and 20 ° C in October / November. Annual precipitation is only around 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 120 mm month precipitation.

Population

The population of the city has increased, especially in the penultimate decade to several times:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population. In the municipality of Tiquipaya speak 58.1 % of the population, the Quechua language.