Alcamarca
| Alcamarca | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 508 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3784 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-1101-0100-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 36 ′ S , 67 ° 27 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Tomas Barrón Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Caracollo climate diagram |
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Alcamarca is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Alcamarca is the third largest town in the Municipio Eucaliptus in the province of Tomas Barrón . Quelcata is located at an altitude of 3784 m a few kilometers east of the Río Desaguadero , which connects Lake Titicaca in the north with Lake Poopó in the south .
geography
Alcamarca is located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Serranía de Sicasica as part of the Cordillera Central in the east. The climate is a typical time of day climate in which the temperature fluctuations during the day are greater than during the year.
The average annual temperature of the region is around 8 ° C (see Caracollo climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate between 4 ° C in June / July and 11 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is less than 400 mm and is characterized by an extended dry season from April to October with monthly values below 15 mm; only in the summer months from December to March fall significant precipitation of 50 to 90 mm.
Transport network
Alcamarca is 89 kilometers northwest of Oruro , the capital of the department.
The national road Ruta 1 runs through Oruro, which runs through the entire Altiplano in north-south direction, from Lake Titicaca via the conurbations of El Alto / La Paz , Oruro, Potosí and Tarija to Bermejo on the border with Argentina .
On the route from El Alto to Oruro, 74 kilometers north of Oruro in the village of Panduro, a dirt road branches off from Ruta 1 in a south-westerly direction, reaches Quelcata after nine kilometers and leads to the town of Eucaliptus for another five kilometers . From there it is another six kilometers in an easterly direction to Alcamarca .
population
The population of the village has changed little in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 539 | census |
| 2001 | 593 | census |
| 2012 | 508 | census |
Due to the history of settlement, the region has a high proportion of indigenous population, in the Municipio Eucalitus 82 percent of the population speak Aymara .
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Topographic map of the Eucaliptus region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 9.4 MB)
- Relief map Corocoro region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio Eucaliptus - General Maps No. 41101
- Municipio Eucaliptus - detailed map and population data (PDF; 226 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )