Tumarapi

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

Location in near space

Tumarapi is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Waldo Ballivián in the province Pacajes. The village lies at an altitude of 3998 m on a twenty- mile wide north- south running flat portion of the Bolivian Altiplano. East of the village at a distance of twenty kilometers, the Vorgebirgsketten the Serranía de Sicasica that rises here to just under 5,000 m rise.

Geography

Tumarapi 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 annual temperature of the region is located at 9 ° C (see climate chart El Alto ) and the annual rainfall is 500-600 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 7 ° C in July and 11 ° C in December. The monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm during the months of June and July and close to 100 mm from December to February.

Traffic network

Tumarapi lies at a distance of 80 kilometers of road south of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz from the paved highway Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto, from there 47 km to the south of the Ruta 1 to Calamarca and on about Patacamaya after Caracollo where the Ruta 1 next to Oruro leads to the south and the Ruta 4 to located east of Cochabamba branches. From Calmarca branches of a dirt road from the south-west and reached after 20 kilometers Tumarapi.

Population

The population of the city has increased between the last two censuses, more than twice:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Ballivián 95.9 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.