It is the second largest town in the district of Pucarani in the province of Los Andes, and is located on the right bank of an inlet towards Lake Titicaca.
[4] The region has a pronounced daytime climate in which the average temperature fluctuations are more evident during the day than during the course of the year.
In December 2019, English travel vlogger Bald and Bankrupt's video about a trip to Patamanta was reported on by the Spanish-language branch of Gizmodo, who called it "more scary than entering Chernobyl".
[5] The video showed him informing a local woman that he was a tourist, prompting her to warn him that "they burn people" in the area.
[5] Two men later approached him, inspected his passport, and gave him 30 minutes to explore and then leave the area.