Orinoca
| Orinoca | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 638 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3788 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-1201-0200-1012 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 58 ′ S , 67 ° 15 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Sud Carangas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Pampa Aullagas |
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Orinoca is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Orinoca is the central place of the canton Orinoca in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Andamarca in the province Sud Carangas . The village is located at an altitude of 3788 m, almost twenty kilometers west of Lake Poopó on the Bolivian highlands.
geography
Orinoca is located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano and west of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central . The climate is typical of the time of day , in which the daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the mean fluctuations between the seasons.
The mean average temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C (see climate diagram Pampa Aullagas) and fluctuates between 4 ° C in June and July and 11 ° C in the summer months from November to March. The annual precipitation is less than 300 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to November with monthly precipitation under 15 mm, and a maximum of 75 mm in January.
traffic
Orinoca is 162 kilometers by road south of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
Until a few years ago, the village could only be reached via unpaved road links and a bus service ran to it twice a week. However, since Evo Morales , who comes from the Orinoca region, was elected president, the region has seen an upgrade and can now be reached at least from the south via Pampa Aullagas and Santuario de Quillacas on an asphalt road.
From the north, from Oruro, the unpaved highway Ruta 12 leads in a south-westerly direction 62 kilometers via Toledo to Villa Copacabana . From there, an unpaved road branches off to the south, which leads via Laca Laca Quita Quita to Andamarca and Eduardo Avaroa and from there to Orinoca . From here the road continues in a south-westerly direction to the village of Pampa Aullagas on the southern edge of Lake Poopó.
On January 8, 2016, the trucks for the 2016 Dakar Rally will pass Orinoca.
population
After the population of the village had more than halved in the decade from 1992 to 2001, it has since increased several times over:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 389 | census |
| 2001 | 163 | census |
| 2012 | 638 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Andamarca 88.5 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
Sons and daughters of the place
The Bolivian President Evo Morales comes from the village of Isallavi near Orinoca.
Web links
- Relief map of the Uncia region 1: 250,000 (JPEG; 8.22 MB)
- Orinoca, el macondo boliviano September 6, 2015 ( Spanish )
- Municipio Andamarca - General Maps No. 41201
- Municipio Andamarca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 455 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )
Individual evidence
- ↑ La Razon on the Dakar Rally 2016
- ^ 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.
- ↑ INE social data (PDF; 6.2 MB)
