Tiraque

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

Location in near space

Tiraque is the central place of the Canton Tiraque district ( bolivian: Municipio) Tiraque and administrative center of the province Tiraque. The city lies at an altitude of 3298 m in the mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental on the left bank of the Río Jatun Mayu.

Geography

The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate where the temperature differences during the day significantly outpace the differences between the seasons.

The annual average temperature is over 9 ° C ( see climate chart Tiraque ) and varies between 6 ° C in June / July and about 12 ° C in November. The annual rainfall is in the long-term average nearly 500 mm, with a monthly value of about 100 mm is achieved in January, while the precipitation in the winter dry season from May to September are less than 10 mm per month.

Traffic network

Tiraque lies at a distance of 57 kilometers of road east of Cochabamba, the capital of the department of the same name.

Tiraque can be reached from Cochabamba on the highway Ruta 4, which leads to the Bolivian lowlands to Villa Tunari and on to Santa Cruz. From Tiraque leads from a dirt road 14 km to the north- west to the Ruta 4, the branch road distance of 27 kilometers in a westerly direction until after Sacaba and from there another 16 kilometers to Cochabamba.

Population

The population of the city has increased in the past two decades by about half:

Due to the historically evolved population structures, the region has a high percentage of indigenous population in the municipality of Tiraque 92.7 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.