Villa Patarani

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

Location in near space

Villa Patarani is the second largest town in the county ( bolivian: Municipio) Patacamaya in the province of flavor and lies at an altitude of 3858 m west of the city Patacamaya.

Geography

Villa Patarani 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 mean average temperature of the region is around 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is 500-600 mm. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 7 ° 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 network

From Villa Patarani you can reach the capital, La Paz after 114 km, first about 10 km on a dirt road in an easterly direction to Patacamaya, then another 104 km on the Ruta 1 north to La Paz from Patacamaya from south leads the Ruta 1 over a distance of 131 km to the city of Oruro.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to a multiple of:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Patacamaya 83.2 % of the population speak the Aymara language.