Viacha

Viacha is a town in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location

Viacha is the center of the county ( bolivian: Municipio) Viacha in the province Ingavi on the right bank of the Río Pallina. The village lies at an altitude of 3870 m on the Bolivian Altiplano, 70 km south-east of Lake Titicaca.

Geography

Viacha located on the Bolivian plateau between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate where the average temperatures during the day fluctuate more than the year.

The mean annual temperature of Viacha is just under 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 600 mm (see climate chart Viacha ). The monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C from November to February. The months of May through August are arid with rainfall month of less than 15 mm, in the austral summer - months of January and February monthly rainfall of over 100 mm can be measured.

Traffic network

Viacha located 35 kilometers by road from La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the highway Ruta 19 runs in a southwesterly direction 35 miles to Viacha and from there to Charaña on the Peruvian border. Viacha is the hub of a railway line, which further leads from La Paz to Peru, with a railway line from Lake Titicaca to Oruro.

Population

The population of the city has increased dramatically in the past three and a half decades to several times: