Villa Tunari

Villa Tunari is a country town in the Cochabamba Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Villa Tunari is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Villa Tunari in the province of Chapare. The city lies on the Rio Chapare at an altitude of 310 m at the foot of the eastern Andean chains between the cities of Cochabamba and Santa Cruz.

Geography

Villa Tunari is located in the Bolivian lowlands on the northern edge of the Cordillera Oriental. The climate is tropical with a pronounced diurnal climate.

The average annual temperature in the long-term average is just under 27 ° C, the monthly temperatures range from just over 23 ° C in July and nearly 29 ° C in December and January. The annual precipitation of 2,300 mm has a distinct rainy season from October to April, with monthly rainfall 160-380 mm.

Traffic network

Villa Tunari is located at a distance of 161 kilometers of road northeast of Cochabamba, the capital of the department.

By Villa Tunari leads the 1657 km long highway Ruta 4, which crosses the country from west to east. It runs from Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border over Cochabamba and Villa Tunari Sacaba by and on about Santa Cruz to Puerto Suarez on the Brazilian border. The road is paved over the distance of 913 km from Tambo Quemado about Santa Cruz to Pailón and then has a dirt surface.

On 23 December 2003 to 50 residents of the town died when the Rio Chapare overflowed its banks, the connection bridge over the Chapare in Villa Tunari destroyed and flooded large areas of the province.

Population

The population of the city has increased in the past three and a half decades to more than double:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, it presents a significant proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Villa Tunari 83.5 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.