Aroma (oruro)
Aroma | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 115 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 3733 m | |
Post Code | 04-0801-0400-1001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 19 ° 19 ′ S , 67 ° 19 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Oruro | |
province | Ladislao Cabrera Province | |
climate | ||
Climate diagram Salinas de Garcí Mendoza |
Aroma is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Aroma is the central place of the canton Aroma in the municipality of Salinas de Garcí Mendoza in the province of Ladislao Cabrera . The village is located at an altitude of 3733 m on the northeast bank of the Río Aroma , thirty kilometers southwest of Lake Poopó , and 45 kilometers east of the Salar de Coipasa and north of the Salar de Uyuni .
geography
Aroma is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east.
The climate is arid , the annual precipitation is only 200 mm (see climate diagram Salinas de Garcí Mendoza), with a pronounced dry season from April to November with only sporadic precipitation; only in the summer from December to March there is significant rainfall between 20 and 70 mm per month. The mean average temperature of the region is around 4.5 ° C and fluctuates only slightly between 0 ° C in July and 7 ° C in January.
Transport network
Aroma is located at a distance of 214 kilometers by road southwest of Oruro , the capital of the department.
From Oruro the national road Ruta 1 leads south and after 53 kilometers reaches the town of Poopó and after another 63 kilometers the town of Challapata . From here, the Ruta leads 30 kilometers south via Santiago de Huari . After crossing a river, a dirt road turns southwest and after 19 kilometers leads to Santuario de Quillacas .
The road continues in a south-westerly direction via Bengal Vinto and Playa Verde to Salinas de Garcí Mendoza and the salt lake Salar de Uyuni . In Playa Verde, an inconspicuous unpaved side road branches off in a northerly direction and after another ten kilometers reaches Aroma .
population
The population of the village has increased by about a fifth in the past decade:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | no detailed data | census |
2001 | 98 | census |
2012 | 115 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Salinas de Garcí Mendoza, 85.3 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 March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ INE social data 2001 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 6.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Salinas de Garci-Mendoza region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.44 MB)
- Relief map of the Aroma region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 573 kB)
- Municipio Salinas de Garcí Mendoza - General Maps No. 40801
- Municipio Salinas de Garcí Mendoza - detailed map and population data (PDF; 806 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )