Tiwanaku, La Paz

Tiawanacu ( Aymara: Tiwanaku ) is a village in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location

Tiawanacu is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Tiahuanacu in the province Ingavi. The village lies at an altitude of 3860 m on the left bank of the Río Tiwanacu twenty kilometers south-east of Lake Titicaca. One kilometer east of the town is the ruin site ( Tiahuanaco ), which was the center of a pre-Inca culture and since 2000 is a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Geography

Tiawanacu located on the Bolivian Altiplano 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 located at 10 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 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

Tiawanacu lies at a distance of 76 kilometers of road west of 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 other eighty kilometers west to Guaqui. Eighteen kilometers from Guaqui branches off a side street to the north and leads to the two kilometers away from the main road Tiawanacu.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to nearly twice:

For historical reasons, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Tiahuanacu 95.7 percent of the population speak the Aymara language ..