Ocurí (Potosí)
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 View of Ocurí |
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| Residents (state) | 1722 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 4026 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0404-0103-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 51 ′ S , 65 ° 48 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Chayanta Province | ||
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 Climate diagram Colquechaca |
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Ocurí is a town in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Ocurí is the central place of the district of the same name ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Ocurí in the province of Chayanta . The village is located on a ridge at an altitude of 4026 m on the Río Ocurí , a tributary of the Río Guadalupe and Río Guadalajara .
geography
Ocurí lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central in the east. The climate of the region is a typical daytime climate , in which the mean temperature fluctuation between day and night is more pronounced than between summer and winter.
The long-term average annual temperature is around 4 ° C (see Colquechaca climate diagram), the monthly values range between 0 ° C in June / July and 6 ° C from November to January. The annual rainfall is 460 mm, from May to August there is a dry season of less than 5 mm of precipitation per month, while the amount of precipitation in January and February reaches about 100 mm.
Transport network
Ocurí is a hundred kilometers north of Potosí , the capital of the department of the same name.
The village is located on the highway Ruta 6 , the direct road connection from Oruro to Sucre . The Ruta 6 trunk road, which is almost 1,000 kilometers long, connects the departments of Oruro , Potosí , Chuquisaca and Santa Cruz .
population
The population of the village has increased by about a fifth in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 477 | census |
| 2001 | 1 408 | census |
| 2013 | 1 722 | census |
Due to the historically grown distribution of population, the region has a high proportion of Quechua people on, in the municipality of Ocurí talk 98.5 percent of the population Quechua -Language ( 2001 ).
economy
The Lípez Huaico Mine and the Ocurí Mine with tin and zinc mining are located near Ocurí .
In addition to a 60-bed hospital, Ocurí also houses the Universidad Técnica de Ocurí , a vocational training center for rural professionals with a two-year apprenticeship in the fields of health care, agriculture and livestock farming and rural construction, which is maintained by CENPRUR (Centro Nacional de Profesionalización) becomes.
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ 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 (PDF; 5.5 MB)
- ↑ MEJORAMIENTO Y DISEÑO PAVIMENTO FLEXIBLE TRAMO ANCACATO - OCURI ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( spanish )
Web links
- Relief map of the Aiquile region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.35 MB)
- Municipio Ocurí - General Maps No. 50404
- Municipio Ocurí - detailed map and population data (PDF; 709 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )