Challapata is the capital of the
Eduardo Abaroa Province
Eduardo Abaroa, also Eduardo Avaroa, or Challapata is a province in the southeastern parts of the Bolivian department of Oruro. Its seat is Challapata. The province was named after Colonel Eduardo Abaroa, Bolivia's hero of the War of the Pacific ...
as well as of the
Challapata Municipality in the
Oruro Department in
Bolivia
, image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg
, flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center
, flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p ...
. It lies at an altitude of 3,738 m above sea level on the edge of the flood plain of the river on the east bank of the Tacagua
Poopó Lake Poopó may refer to:
* Poopó Lake, Oruro, Bolivia
* Poopó Province, Oruro, Bolivia
* Poopó Municipality
Poopó Municipality is the first municipal section of the Poopó Province in the Oruro Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Poopó.
Ge ...
. Challapata is located half way of the road and railway connection from
Oruro
Oruro (Hispanicized spelling) or Uru Uru is a city in Bolivia with a population of 264,683 (2012 calculation), about halfway between La Paz and Sucre in the Altiplano, approximately above sea level.
It is Bolivia's fifth-largest city by populat ...
to
Potosí
Potosí, known as Villa Imperial de Potosí in the colonial period, is the capital city and a municipality of the Department of Potosí in Bolivia. It is one of the highest cities in the world at a nominal . For centuries, it was the location o ...
, about 130 kilometers from both cities. Directly southeast of the city rises the Cerro Azanaques, with 5102 m the highest peak in the
Azanaques Mountain Range ''(Cordillera de Azanaques)''.
Geography
Challapata is located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian
Altiplano
The Altiplano (Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla") or Andean Plateau, in west-central South America, is the most extensive high plateau on Earth outside Tibet. The plateau is located at the ...
before the Cordillera Azanaques, which is a part of the mountain chain of the
Cordillera Central Central Cordillera refers to the New Guinea Highlands.
Cordillera Central, meaning ''central range'' in Spanish, may refer to the following mountain ranges:
* Cordillera Central, Andes (disambiguation), several mountain ranges in South America
** ...
. The mean average temperature of the region lies at 8-9 °C (see climate diagram) and varies between 4 °C in June and July and 11 °C in December. The annual rainfall is about 350 mm, up to a pronounced dry season from April to October with monthly rainfall below 15 mm, and significant rainfall from December to March only 60 to 80 mm monthly rainfall.
Population
The population of Challapata has risen in the past two decades by nearly 50 percent:
1992: 6661 inhabitants (census)
2001: 7683 inhabitants (census)
2010: 9482 inhabitants (update)
See also
*
Jatun Wila Qullu
Jatun Wila Qullu (Quechua ''jatun, hatun'' big, great, Aymara ''wila'' red or blood, ''qullu'' mountain, "great red mountain", hispanicized spelling ''Jatun Wila Kkollu, Jatun Willa Kollu'') is a mountain in the Andes in Bolivia, about 5,214&nbs ...
*
Wila Qullu
References
World Gazetteer
{{Authority control
Populated places in Oruro Department