El Palmar (Yungas)

El Palmar
	; Yungas in Bolivia
Basic data
Residents (state)	307 pop. (2012 census)
height	1226 m
Post Code	02-1105-0200-3001
Telephone code	(+591)
Coordinates	16 ° 12 ′ S , 67 ° 13 ′ W Coordinates: 16 ° 12 ′ S , 67 ° 13 ′ W
	El Palmar
	El Palmar
politics
Department	La Paz
province	South Yungas Province
climate
	; Climate diagram Chulumani

El Palmar is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

El Palmar is the second largest town in the canton of Calizaya in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) La Asunta in the province of Sud Yungas . The village is located at an altitude of 1495 m on the northwest slope above the Río Boopi .

geography

El Palmar is located in the Bolivian Yungas on the eastern slope of the high mountain ridge of the Cordillera Real . The climate is a typical time of day climate in which the mean fluctuation in daytime temperatures is more pronounced than the seasonal fluctuations.

The mean average temperature of the region is 21 ° C (see climate diagram Chulumani), the mean monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 18 ° C in July and 22 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is about 1150 mm, the monthly precipitation is between about 20 mm in the months of June and July and more than 150 mm from December to February.

Transport network

El Palmar is located at a distance of 184 km by road east of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the paved road Ruta 3 leads in a north-easterly direction for 60 kilometers to Unduavi , from there the unpaved Ruta 25 branches off in a south-easterly direction along the Río Unduavi and after 70 kilometers it reaches Chulumani . From there, a dirt road leads twenty kilometers via Tajma to Pasto Pata . From Pasto Pata a road leads ten kilometers down a stream valley into the valley of the Río Tamampaya , overcoming a difference of 750 meters in altitude. The road crosses the river and continues past Villa Barrientos for a further eighteen kilometers along its left, northern bank to the confluence with the Río Boopi . From there it is another thirteen kilometers down the Río Boopi via Yanamayu and Chamaca to Charobamba . Four kilometers below Charobamba, a road branches off to the left that winds up more than 300 meters in altitude to El Palmar and from which a side road leads to the villages of Calizaya and Charoplaya .