title: Charaña
text: # Charaña
  
  Charaña is a high elevation town in the altiplano of the La Paz Department in Bolivia. It is the seat of the Charaña Municipality, the fifth municipal section of the Pacajes Province.
  
  Charaña is 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east of the border with Chile.
  
  ## History
  
  Charaña was the scene of the famous meeting between President Augusto Pinochet of Chile and Hugo Banzer on 8 February 1975 when they signed a Joint Declaration (Charaña Act), which restored diplomatic relations between the two countries which were broken since April 1962.
  
  ## Climate
  
  Climate data for Charaña 4057 m asl (1981–2010 normals) :
  
  | Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Record high °C (°F) | 25.0 (77.0) | 24.4 (75.9) | 25.2 (77.4) | 27.5 (81.5) | 21.5 (70.7) | 21.4 (70.5) | 19.8 (67.6) | 23.0 (73.4) | 27.7 (81.9) | 28.8 (83.8) | 30.4 (86.7) | 29.4 (84.9) | 30.4 (86.7) |
  | Average high °C (°F) | 19.2 (66.6) | 19.2 (66.6) | 19.5 (67.1) | 18.9 (66.0) | 16.9 (62.4) | 15.1 (59.2) | 14.9 (58.8) | 16.5 (61.7) | 17.8 (64.0) | 19.7 (67.5) | 20.6 (69.1) | 20.6 (69.1) | 18.2 (64.8) |
  | Daily mean °C (°F) | 10.6 (51.1) | 10.2 (50.4) | 9.8 (49.6) | 8.1 (46.6) | 5.1 (41.2) | 3.1 (37.6) | 3.0 (37.4) | 3.4 (38.1) | 6.4 (43.5) | 8.0 (46.4) | 9.2 (48.6) | 10.3 (50.5) | 7.3 (45.1) |
  | Average low °C (°F) | 1.6 (34.9) | 0.8 (33.4) | 0.3 (32.5) | −2.6 (27.3) | −6.7 (19.9) | −8.5 (16.7) | −8.7 (16.3) | −7.6 (18.3) | −5.2 (22.6) | −3.3 (26.1) | −1.7 (28.9) | 0.0 (32.0) | −3.5 (25.7) |
  | Record low °C (°F) | −6.7 (19.9) | −8 (18) | −7.8 (18.0) | −10.6 (12.9) | −16.4 (2.5) | −16 (3) | −18 (0) | −17 (1) | −15.4 (4.3) | −11.8 (10.8) | −10.8 (12.6) | −11 (12) | −18 (0) |
  | Average precipitation mm (inches) | 133.1 (5.24) | 122.7 (4.83) | 119.7 (4.71) | 30.5 (1.20) | 13.2 (0.52) | 4.4 (0.17) | 9.6 (0.38) | 3.5 (0.14) | 3.9 (0.15) | 18.8 (0.74) | 25.4 (1.00) | 64.8 (2.55) | 549.6 (21.63) |
  | Average precipitation days (≥ 1 mm) | 22.21 | 19.88 | 20.11 | 13.43 | 8.45 | 4.29 | 13.78 | 10.94 | 9.38 | 14.47 | 16.03 | 20.10 | 173.07 |
  | Source 1: Météo climat stats ||||||||||||||
  | Source 2: Météo Climat ||||||||||||||
  