Orcoma
| Orcoma | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 584 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2558 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-0703-0200-8008 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 45 ′ S , 66 ° 21 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Capinota Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Arque |
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Orcoma is a town in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Orcoma is the central place of the canton Orcoma in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Sicaya in the province Capinota . The village is located at an altitude of 2558 m in the valley of the Río Arque , one of the headwaters of the Bolivian Río Grande , at the mouth of the Río Sapo Mayu .
geography
Orcoma lies in one of the northern foothills of the Bolivian Cordillera Central . The climate is semi-arid and a typical daytime climate , where the temperature differences between day and night are more pronounced than between the seasons.
The valley region of the Río Arque has an average annual precipitation of 600 mm and an annual average temperature of 11 ° C. The dry season lasts from May to September and has lower temperatures, but is frost-free. The rainy season lasts from December to February and is warmer than the annual average (see climate diagram Arque).
Transport network
Orcoma lies in a south-westerly direction 83 kilometers by road from Cochabamba , the capital of the department.
Cochabamba from west leads the paved highway Ruta 4 , which at Caracollo the Ruta 1 encounters that the Altiplano crossed from north to south. 37 kilometers southwest of Cochabamba, a dirt road branches off in a south-easterly direction at Parotani and reaches the city of Capinota after 30 kilometers . The road leads a further thirteen kilometers via Irpa Irpa to Orcoma up the Río Arque and on via Kara Kara to Arque .
population
The population of the village has more than tripled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 162 | census |
| 2001 | 237 | census |
| 2012 | 584 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Sicaya 98.7 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 Cochabamba 2001 (PDF; 7.6 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Cochabamba region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.6 MB)
- Municipio Capinota - detailed map and population data (PDF; 361 kB)
- Municipio Capinota - General Maps No. 30701 ( Spanish )
- Department of Cochabamba - Social data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 7.58 MB)