Umala

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

Location in near space

Umala is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Umala in the province of flavor. The village lies at an altitude of 3827 m at the northern end of the Serranía de Huayllamarca, an approximately 100 km long ridge that extends on the Altiplano in the west of the city of Oruro in northwest -southeast direction.

Geography

Umala located on the Bolivian plateau between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The climate is typical diurnal climate of equatorial high mountains where the average temperature fluctuations during the day be stronger than during the year.

The mean average temperature of the region is about 7 ° C (see climate chart Patacamaya ), the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 4 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C in November / December. The annual precipitation is 460 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm from May to August and at 110 mm in January.

Traffic network

Umala is located 128 km from La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz leads the paved highway Ruta 2 over 13 km to El Alto, from there the Ruta 1 in a southerly direction as asphalt road 91 km to Patacamaya, then Ruta 4 in a southwesterly direction 16 km to Cañaviri. From there take the dirt road the remaining 8 km to the south to Umala, crossed shortly after the Río Desaguadero and continues on to San Pedro de Totora Curahuara and in the Oruro Department.

Population

The population of the city has increased by about 15 percent in the penultimate decade:

For historical reasons, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Umala 91.2 % of the population speak the Aymara language ..