Opoco
| Opoco | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Full name | San Pedro de Opoco | ||
| Residents (state) | 115 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3864 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-1202-0200-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 45 ′ S , 66 ° 42 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Antonio Quijarro Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Pampa Aullagas |
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Opoco (also: San Pedro de Opoco ) is a town in the Potosí department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Opoco is the central place of the canton Opoco in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Tomave in the province Antonio Quijarro . The village is located at an altitude of 3864 m on the slope of Cerro Copajata , an island mountain on the Río Mulato in the Cordillera de los Frailes .
geography
Opoco is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The region's climate is arid and characterized by a typical time of day climate.
The mean average temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C (see climate diagram Pampa Aullagas) and fluctuates only insignificantly between 5 ° C in June and July and 11 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is around 300 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to October with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and only a few months with sufficient moisture, the wettest month is January with just over 70 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Opoco is 315 kilometers by road northwest of Potosí , the capital of the department.
From Potosí, the Ruta 1 highway leads northwest via Tarapaya , Yocalla and Ventilla and after 203 kilometers reaches the town of Challapata . From here the route 30 leads south via Santiago de Huari and Sevaruyo towards Uyuni at the salt lake of the same name Salar de Uyuni and after another 102 kilometers reaches the village of Río Mulato .
Río Mulato is also the station of a railway line that runs from Oruro via Uyuni to Villazón on the Argentine border and offers a connection four times a week through the Empresa Ferroviaria Andina railway company . In the past, Río Mulato was also the end point of a railway line that led from Potosí to Río Mulato and, with the Cóndor Estación train station at 4,786 m altitude, had the second highest train station in the world until 2006, after Ticlio in Peru ; the Potosí-Río Mulato railway line is now closed.
From Río Mulato, an unpaved road leads southeast to Cerro Copajata and after ten kilometers reaches Opoco .
population
The population of the village has increased roughly threefold in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 37 | census |
| 2001 | 148 | census |
| 2012 | 115 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Tomave 92.0 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
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 Potosí 2001 (PDF; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Rio Mulato region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.12 MB)
- Municipio Tomave - General Maps No. 51202
- Municipio Tomave - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.57 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )