Viloco

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

Location in near space

Viloco is the most populous town in the county ( bolivian: Municipio) Cairoma in the province Loayza. The village lies at an altitude Viloco of 3660 m at a right tributary of the Río Luribay in one of the eastern valleys of the Serranía de Sicasica.

Geography

Viloco lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands to the east. The region exhibits a typical day time environment, where the temperature differences between day and night is greater than the average temperature difference between seasons.

The mean average temperature of the region is located at 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is 500-600 mm (see climate chart Viloco ), with a pronounced dry season from May to August, monthly values ​​of less than 15 mm of precipitation.

Infrastructure

Viloco is located 185 kilometers by road from La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved highway Ruta 1 leads south across El Alto to the south. Twelve kilometers south of El Alto branches off a country road to the southwest and follows the Río Cala Jahuira twenty kilometers upstream. From there branches off a dirt access road from the northeast and reached after a further 35 km Sapahaqui. The road follows the course of the river to the village of Sapahaqui Caracato and further north to the Río Caracato Khola and from there another 45 km in a southeasterly direction to Viloco.

Population

The population of the town has declined in the past two decades by about 30 percent:

Because of the historical demographic development in the municipality of Cairoma the Aymara population is predominant, 87.7 % of the population speak the Aymara language.