Andamarca (Oruro)
| Andamarca | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Full name | Santiago de Andamarca | ||
| Residents (state) | 468 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3748 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-1201-0100-1002 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 47 ′ S , 67 ° 30 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Sud Carangas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Pampa Aullagas |
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Andamarca (also: Santiago de Andamarca ) is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia . Andamarca was founded in 1723.
Location in the vicinity
Andamarca is the administrative seat of the province of Sud Carangas and the central place of the Municipio Andamarca and is located 120 km southwest of the city of Oruro . It is located at an altitude of 3748 m above sea level on the eastern edge of the southern foothills of the Serranía de Huayllamarca , an approximately 100 km long ridge that extends on the Altiplano in a north-west-south-east direction. The town is located on the Ruta de los Tres Siglos from Oruro to Santuario de Quillacas , 10 km west of Lake Poopó and 15 km southeast of the Laguna Jayu Kkota .
geography
Andamarca is located west of Lake Poopó on the eastern edge of the Altiplano in front of the Cordillera Azanaques , which is part of the Cordillera Central mountain range . The climate is a typical time of day climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the fluctuations between the seasons.
The mean average temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C (see climate diagram Pampa Aullagas) and fluctuates between 4 ° C in June and July and 11 ° C in the summer months from November to March. The annual precipitation is less than 300 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to November with monthly precipitation under 15 mm, and a maximum of 75 mm in January.
Transport network
Andamarca is located 116 kilometers by road southwest of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Oruro, the unsurfaced national road Ruta 12 leads in a south-westerly direction 62 kilometers via Toledo to Villa Copacabana . From there, an unpaved road branches off to the south, which leads via Laca Laca Quita Quita to Andamarca and on via Eduardo Avaroa to Orinoca , the birthplace of the first indigenous president of Bolivia, Evo Morales .
population
The population of the village has been subject to significant fluctuations over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 409 | census |
| 2001 | 302 | census |
| 2012 | 468 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a certain proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Andamarca 88.5 percent of the population speak Aymara .
Individual evidence
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original dated February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE social data Oruro 2001 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Nevado Sajama region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.0 MB)
- Municipio Andamarca - General Maps No. 41201
- Municipio Andamarca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 455 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )