Ayapampa

Ayapampa
Basic data
Residents (state)	146 pop. (2012 census)
height	3306 m
Post Code	03-1303-0102-5001
Telephone code	(+591)
Coordinates	17 ° 46 ′ S , 65 ° 36 ′ W Coordinates: 17 ° 46 ′ S , 65 ° 36 ′ W
	Ayapampa
	Ayapampa
politics
Department	Cochabamba
province	Mizque
climate
	; Climate diagram Vacas

Ayapampa is a town in the Cochabamba department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Ayapampa is the central place of the canton Ayapampa in the municipality of Alalay in the province of Mizque . The village is located on a ridge of the Cordillera of Cochabamba at an altitude of 3306 m on a right tributary of the Río Pajcha , which flows downstream near Mizque into the Río Mizque .

geography

Ayapampa is located in the northwestern part of the Cordillera Oriental , the easternmost mountain range of the Bolivian high mountains. The climate of the region is characterized by a typical time of day climate , in which the daily temperature fluctuations are more pronounced than the seasonal fluctuations.

The annual average temperature is 12 ° C (see Vacas climate diagram), temperatures in the winter months of June / July are just under 10 ° C and in November / December a little more than 14 ° C. The annual precipitation is 550 mm and reaches values of 100 to 120 mm in the summer months from December to February, while in the arid months from May to September hardly any precipitation falls.

Transport network

Ayapampa is located at a distance of 92 kilometers by road southeast of Cochabamba , the capital of the department of the same name.

From Cochabamba the asphalt national road Ruta 7 leads in a south-easterly direction 41 kilometers to San Benito , from there a dirt road further south-east via Punata to Arani . From there, an unpaved road continues to the southeast and after 21 kilometers via Pocoata reaches the village of Alalay . In Alalay, a side road branches off in a south-easterly direction, passes the Alalay cemetery and after sixteen kilometers leads past Ayapampa .

population

The population of the village has decreased significantly in the past decade:

year	Residents	source
1992	no detailed data	census
2001	277	census
2012	146	census

Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Alalay 99.6 percent of the population speak Quechua .