Ulloma

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

Location in near space

Ulloma is the most populous town in the county ( municipality ) in the Province of Calacoto Pacajes. The village lies at an altitude of 3804 m on the right south bank of the Río Desaguadero, about one hundred kilometers in a straight line to the southeast of Lake Titicaca.

Geography

Ulloma 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 8 ° C (see climate chart Charaña ) and the annual rainfall is 500-600 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 4 ° 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

Ulloma is located 192 kilometers by road from La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz performs the highway Ruta 2 to El Alto, from there the Ruta 19 in a southwesterly direction over Viacha to Caquiaviri and on to Charaña to the Chilean border. From Caquiaviri performs a dirt road about 30 km in a southeasterly direction to Coro Coro and from there leads another road 26 km to the southwest to Calacoto, the central place of the district. The unpaved access road to Ulloma crosses the Río Desaguadero here in the south and reached after a further 35 kilometers Ulloma.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the decade between the last two censuses at nearly twice:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Calacoto 93.1 % of the population speak the Aymara language.