Salinas de Garcí Mendoza
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 View over Salinas Garcí Mendoza |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 593 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3733 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0801-0100-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 38 ′ S , 67 ° 41 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Ladislao Cabrera Province | ||
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 Climate diagram Salinas de Garcí Mendoza |
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Salinas de Garcí Mendoza (formerly: Salinas de Thunapa) is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Salinas de Garcí Mendoza is the administrative seat of the province of Ladislao Cabrera and a central place in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Salinas de Garcí Mendoza . The village is situated at an altitude of 3733 m at the foot of Cerro Caricha (4227 m), twenty kilometers north of the stratovolcano Tunupa . Also twenty kilometers northwest of Salinas de Garci Mendoza is the salt lake Salar de Coipasa , fifteen kilometers south-east of de Salar Uyuni , the largest salt lake in the world.
geography
Salinas de Garcí Mendoza is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east.
The climate is arid , the annual precipitation is only 200 mm (see climate diagram Salinas de Garcí Mendoza), with a pronounced dry season from April to November with only sporadic precipitation; only in the summer from December to March there is significant rainfall between 20 and 70 mm per month. The mean average temperature of the region is around 4.5 ° C and fluctuates only slightly between 0 ° C in July and 7 ° C in January.
Transport network
Salinas de Garcí Mendoza is located at a distance of 261 kilometers by road southwest of the departmental capital Oruro .
From Oruro, the Ruta 1 highway runs for 116 kilometers in a southerly direction through the cities of Machacamarca and Poopó to Challapata . In Challapata, the Ruta 30 branches off to the southwest and after 30 kilometers leads via Santiago de Huari to the Río Laca Jahuira . Immediately after crossing the river bed, a dirt road branches off in a westerly direction, which reaches Salinas de Garcí Mendoza after 115 kilometers via Santuario de Quillacas , Bengal Vinto and Tambo Tambillo .
population
The population of the village has increased by almost half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 405 | census |
| 2001 | 584 | census |
| 2012 | 593 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Salinas de Garcí Mendoza 85.3 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
economy
Southeast of the village is on an alluvial plane of 10 square kilometers of intensive cultivation of quinoa operated, which is worked in the city itself in a processing plant for distribution in Bolivia and for export, so that Salinas de Garci Mendoza today known as the "capital of the Quinua "carries.
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 2001 (PDF; 6.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Salinas de Garci-Mendoza region (PDF; 10.44 MB)
- Municipio Salinas de Garcí Mendoza - General Maps No. 40801
- Municipio Salinas de Garcí Mendoza - detailed map and population data (PDF; 806 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )