Opoqueri
| Opoqueri | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1042 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3783 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0301-0300-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 32 ′ S , 67 ° 54 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Carangas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Turco |
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Opoqueri is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Opoqueri is the central place of the canton Opoqueri in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Corque in the province of Carangas . Opoqueri located at an altitude of 3,783 meters above sea level in the Bolivian Altiplano about sixty kilometers north of the salt lake Salar de Coipasa .
geography
The climate in the Opoqueri area is semi-arid and has a short rainy season in summer, the annual precipitation is almost 300 mm (see Turco climate diagram). The annual average temperature is a good 6 ° C without significant fluctuations in the course of the year, but with strong daily fluctuations in temperature and frequent changes in frost .
The vegetation corresponds to the semi-arid puna . It is treeless and mainly consists of thorn bushes , grasses , succulents and cushion plants . It is used economically as a llama , alpaca and sheep pasture .
Transport network
Opoqueri is 114 kilometers by road southwest of Oruro , the capital of the department.
From Oruro, the unpaved highway Ruta 12 leads via Toledo and Ancaravi to Opoqueri and on via Huachacalla and Pisiga on the Chilean border to Colchane in Chile .
Eight kilometers northeast of the village, the Ruta 12 crosses the Río Barras , which for most of the year seeps into the Puna twenty kilometers south of Opoqueri and only flows into the Salar de Coipasa in the rainy months from January to March .
population
The population of the place has increased fourfold in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 236 | census |
| 2001 | 582 | census |
| 2012 | 1 042 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of indigenous population, in the Municipio Corque 89.7 percent of the over 6-year-olds speak the Aymara language .
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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.
Web links
- Relief map of the Nevado Sajama region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.0 MB)
- Municipio Corque - General Maps No. 40301
- Municipio Corque - detailed map and population data (PDF; 592 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )