Villa Abecia
Villa Abecia (also short Abecia ) ( other name: Camataqui ) is a village in the department of Chuquisaca in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
Villa Abecia is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Villa Abecia and seat of government of the province of Sud Cinti. The village is situated on the border of the department of Tarija at an altitude of 2311 m on the northern foothills of the Sierra San Roque, in a tributary of the Río Pilaya, a right tributary of the Río Pilcomayo.
Geography
Villa Abecia is located on the southwestern slopes of the Bolivian Cordillera Central, between the Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian lowlands to the east. The climate is cool temperate mountain climate with typical diurnal climate where the average temperature differences fluctuate more during the day than during the year.
The average annual temperature in the region is just under 14 ° C (see climate chart Camargo ), the monthly average values vary between some 10 ° C in June / July and 16 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is 400 mm and has seven arid months from April to October with monthly values below 20 mm, significant monthly rainfall is only from December to February, with values of 80-90 per mm.
Traffic network
Villa Abecia lies at a distance of 137 kilometers of road north-west of Tarija, the capital of the department of the same name.
Villa Abecia is located on the 1215 km long highway Ruta 1, which leads from Lake Titicaca in the north to the Argentine border in the south. The road north and south of Villa Abecia has been paved since 2004 and provided with a cement platform. The 40- kilometer route from Camargo to Villa Abecia and on to El Monte de Sandoval is already done, as well as the approximately 75 -kilometer section of El Puente to Iscayachi.
Population
The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by more than a third:
Due to the historically evolved population distribution, it presents a certain amount of Quechua population in the municipality of Camataquí 17.0 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.