Villa Remedios

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

Location in near space

Villa Remedios 's most populous after the province capital Viacha municipality in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Viacha in the province Ingavi and lies at an altitude of 3946 m. Villa Remedios is on a twenty- mile wide north- south running flat portion of the Bolivian Altiplano, directly east of the village rise the Vorgebirgsketten the Serranía de Sicasica that rises here to just under 5,000 m.

Geography

Villa Remedios is 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 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

Villa Remedios is located 42 kilometers by road south of La Paz, the capital of the department.

From La Paz from the paved highway Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto, from there the Ruta 1 another 29 miles to Villa Remedios and on about Patacamaya after Caracollo where the Ruta 1 next to Oruro leads to the south and the Ruta 4 to located east of Cochabamba branches.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by about a third:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Viacha 70.8 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.