Location

Charazani is the capital of Bautista Saavedra Province

Bautista Saavedra Province

Bautista Saavedra is one of the twenty provinces of the Bolivian department of La Paz and is situated in the department's northwestern parts. The province's name honors Bautista Saavedra Mallea , Bolivia's president from 1920 to 1925.- Location :...

 and central town of the Charazani Municipality. It is situated on a spur at an elevation

Elevation

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....

 of 3,200 m amsl

Above mean sea level

The term above mean sea level refers to the elevation or altitude of any object, relative to the average sea level datum. AMSL is used extensively in radio by engineers to determine the coverage area a station will be able to reach...

 between Cordillera Muñecas in the south and Cordillera Apolabamba in the north, on a Mapiri River

Mapiri River

Mapiri River is a river of Amapá state in Brazil. It is a tributary of the Jari River which is part of the Amazon River basin....

 tributary which itself flows towards Beni River

Beni River

The Beni River is a river in the north of Bolivia.It rises north of La Paz and flows northeast through the pampas. One of the tributary rivers is Tuichi River in the Madidi National Park. Tuichi River joins the Beni River upstream from the town Rurrenabaque. South of Rurrenabaque, Río Beni runs...

.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure

Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function...

 

Charazani is located 254 km north-west of La Paz

La Paz

Nuestra Señora de La Paz is the administrative capital of Bolivia, as well as the departmental capital of the La Paz Department, and the second largest city in the country after Santa Cruz de la Sierra...

, the capital of La Paz Department. From La Paz, the asphaltic highway Ruta 2 goes 70 km north-west to Huarina

Huarina

Huarina is a location in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. It is the seat of the Huarina Municipality, one of the four municipalities of the Omasuyos Province.-External links:* – Official site...

, where the asphaltic Ruta 16 branches south-west for another 97 km along Lake Titicaca

Lake Titicaca

Lake Titicaca is a lake located on the border of Peru and Bolivia. It sits 3,811 m above sea level, making it the highest commercially navigable lake in the world...

 till Escoma

Escoma

Escoma is a location in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. It is the seat of the Escoma Municipality, one of five municipalities of the Eliodoro Camacho Province. In 2009 Escoma had an estimated population of 712.-References:...

. From Escoma a dirt road goes north and reaches Charazani after 87 km.

Population

The population of Charazani has risen by 20 % in the recent decade, from 501 inhabitants (2001 census

Census

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) to 604 inhabitants (2008 est.).

External links

• Detailed map of Bautista Saavedra Province