Vitichi

Vitichi is a village in the department of Potosí in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Vitichi is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Vitichi in the province of Nor chichas. The village lies at an altitude of 1684 m on the left bank of the Río Vitichi thirty kilometers above its junction with the Río Tumusla.

Geography

Vitichi located in the southern part of the barren plateau of the Bolivian Altiplano. The climate is characterized because of the internal situation in cool, dry and by a typical diurnal climate, in which the temperature fluctuations between day and night are generally significantly greater than the seasonal variation.

The average annual temperature is 13 ° C (see climate chart Vitichi ) and varies only slightly between 10 ° C in June / July and over 15 ° C from November to March. The annual rainfall is only 400 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to October month precipitation less than 20 mm, and a humidity season from December to February, about 80 mm month precipitation.

Traffic network

Vitichi lies at a distance of 131 kilometers of road south of Potosi, the capital of the department.

From Potosí from the paved highway Ruta 1 from Lake Titicaca leads north to the Argentine border in the south, crossing the cities of El Alto, Oruro and Potosí. From Potosí from them via 37 kilometers south to Cuchu Ingenio, where the largely unpaved Ruta 14 branches off to the south and reached for further 94 kilometers Vitichi. Then continues over Tumusla and Cotagaita after Villazón.

Population

The population of the town has declined in the past two decades to about half:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Vitichi 98.2 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.