Huayllamarca
| Huayllamarca | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Full name | Santiago de Huayllamarca | ||
| Residents (state) | 352 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3888 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-1601-0100-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 50 ′ S , 67 ° 57 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Nor Carangas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Huayllamarca |
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Santiago de Huayallamaca ( Aymara : Wayllamarka ) is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Santiago de Huayllamarca is the administrative seat of the province of Nor Carangas and the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Huayllamarca . The place is located at an altitude of 3893 m in the river valley of the Río Huayllamarca on the eastern slope of the Serranía de Huayllamarca , an approximately 100 km long ridge that extends on the Bolivian Altiplano in a north-west-south-east direction.
geography
Huayllamarca is located between the Andean mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Occidental in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano . The region's climate is typical of the time of day , in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the seasons.
The mean annual precipitation is about 330 mm and falls 80 percent in the months of December to March (see Huayllamarca climate diagram). The annual average temperature is just under +8 ° C, the monthly average values fluctuate between +4 ° C in June / July and around +10 ° C from November to March.
Transport network
Huayllamarca is located at a distance of 121 kilometers by road northwest of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Oruro, the paved road Ruta 1 leads north towards Caracollo and La Paz . Five kilometers behind Oruro, a dirt road branches off to the northwest and after another 44 kilometers crosses the Río Desaguadero . From here the road leads to the southwest via La Joya and Lajma and after 42 kilometers reaches Chuquichambi . Here a spur road branches off to the northwest and after 30 kilometers leads to Huayllamarca .
population
The population of the village has increased by about half in the last two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 267 | census |
| 2001 | 439 | census |
| 2012 | 352 | census |
The vast majority of the population of the region belong to the indigenous Aymara people , in the province of Nor Carangas 96 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
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 December 11, 2015 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.
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 Huayllamarca - General Maps No. 41601
- Municipio Huayllamarca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 324 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )
- Huayllamarca on Facebook