Vacas, Cochabamba

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

Location in near space

Vacas is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Vacas in the province Arani. The village is located in a high endorheic basin at an altitude of 3469 m. Near the village there is the lake Laguna Acero Khocha, the streams and small rivers receive along with two other lakes in the basin, which flow down from the up to over 4,200 m high mountain ranges.

Geography

Vacas is located in the northwestern part of the Cordillera Oriental, the eastern mountain chain of the Bolivian high mountains. The climate of the region is characterized by a typical diurnal climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are more pronounced than the seasonal variation.

The average annual temperature is 12 ° C (see climate chart ), the temperatures in the winter months of June / July at just 10 ° C and in November / December at a little over 14 ° C. The annual precipitation is 550 mm and reaches in the summer months from December to February values ​​of 100-120 mm, while in the arid months from May to September almost no precipitation falls.

Traffic network

Vacas is located at a distance of 84 kilometers of road southeast of Cochabamba, the capital of the department of the same name.

From Cochabamba the paved highway Ruta 7 a dirt road leads in a south-easterly direction 41 miles to San Benito, from there to the southeast across Punata by Arani and on to Vacas.

Population

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

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, it presents a significant proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Vacas 99.3 % of the population speak the Quechua language.