San Miguel (Nor Carangas)
| San Miguel | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 233 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3906 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-1601-0303-0001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 57 ′ S , 67 ° 45 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Nor Carangas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Huayllamarca |
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San Miguel is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
San Miguel is the central place of the Cantón San Miguel in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Huayllamarca in the province of Nor Carangas . The place is located at an altitude of 3767 m on a plateau on the eastern slope of the Serranía de Huayllamarca , an approximately 100 km long ridge that extends on the Altiplano in a north-west-south-east direction.
geography
San Miguel lies between the Andean ridges of the Cordillera Oriental in the west and the Cordillera Occidental in the east in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano .
The mean annual precipitation is about 330 mm and falls 80 percent in the months of December to March (see Huayllamarca climate diagram). The annual average temperature is almost 8 ° C, the monthly average values fluctuate between 4 ° C in June / July and around 10 ° C from November to March.
Transport network
San Miguel is located 91 kilometers by road northwest of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Oruro, the paved road Ruta 31 leads west via La Joya and Lajma to Chuquichambi on the Serranía de Huayllamarca, from there on via Huayllamarca and Totora to Curahuara de Carangas , where it meets the Ruta 4 towards Chile . Three kilometers before Chuquichambi, a dirt road branches off to the south and after eight kilometers reaches San Miguel .
population
The population of the place has increased by about a third in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 179 | census |
| 2001 | 190 | census |
| 2012 | 233 | census |
The vast majority of the population in the region belongs to the indigenous Aymara people , in the municipality of Huayllamarca 96 percent of the population speak the Aymara 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.
Web links
- Relief map Corocoro region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio Huayllamarca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 2.18 MB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Huayllamarca - General Maps No. 41601 ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 5.86 MB)