Challapata

Challapata is the capital of the Eduardo Abaroa Province in addition to of the Challapata Municipality in the Oruro department in Bolivia. It lies at an altitude of 3,738 m above sea stage on the brink of the 250-acre flood undeniable of the river at the east bank of the Tacagua Poopo Lake. Challapata is positioned half of manner of the road and railway connection from Oruro to Potosí, approximately a hundred thirty kilometers from each towns. directly southeast of the town rises the Cerro Azanaques, with 5102 m the highest height inside the Azanaques Mountain variety.

Challapata is positioned on the japanese edge of the Bolivian Altiplano earlier than the Cordillera Azanaques, that's a part of the mountain chain of the Cordillera significant. The suggest average temperature of the location lies at 8-9 °C and varies among 4 °C in June and July and 11 °C in December. the annual rainfall is set 350 mm, as much as a reported dry season from April to October with monthly rainfall underneath 15 mm, and considerable rainfall from December to March best 60 to eighty mm monthly rainfall.