Villa Rivero

Villa Rivero (also: Muela ) is a town in the Cochabamba Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location

Villa Rivero is the central place of the district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the province of Villa Rivero Punata and is at the southeastern edge of the 490 km ² large fertile plateau of the Valle Alto. The village lies at an altitude of 2735 m approximately ten kilometers from the edge of the Cordillera Oriental, which rises east of Villa Rivero to over 3,600 m and 4,100 m north of Punata on.

Geography

Villa Rivero is located in the transition zone between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian lowlands to the east.

The mean average temperature of the region is almost 18 ° C (see climate chart Cochabamba ) and varies only slightly between 14 ° C in June and July and 20 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is about 450 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September, with monthly rainfall less than 10 mm, and a humidity from December to February with an 90-110 mm monthly rainfall.

Traffic network

Villa Rivero is located 55 road kilometers southeast of Cochabamba, the capital of the department of the same name.

From Cochabamba from the paved highway Ruta 7 results in a southeasterly direction 41 miles to San Benito, from where a dirt road six kilometers to the south-east to Punata and another eight kilometers further to Villa Rivero.

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 Quechua population in the municipality of Villa Rivero speak 97.4 percent of the population, the Quechua language.