Sora Sora (Machacamarca)
| Sora Sora | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 99 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3765 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0702-0201-9006 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 10 ′ S , 66 ° 58 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Pantaleón Dalence Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Oruro climate diagram |
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Sora Sora (also: Vicente Ascarrunz ) is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Sora Sora is the central place of the canton Vicente Ascarrunz in the municipality Machacamarca in the province Pantaleón Dalence . The village is located at an altitude of 3765 m on the left, southern bank of the Río Huanuni , which flows from the village of Huanuni to the northwest into the Uru-Uru Lake .
geography
Sora Sora is located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano and is bordered to the east by the high mountain ranges of the Cordillera Central . The vegetation of the region is that of the puna , the climate is cold and dry and a typical time of day climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the seasons.
The annual average temperature of the region is just under 11 ° C and fluctuates between 6 ° C in June / July and 14 ° C in November (see Oruro climate diagram). The annual precipitation is as low as 400 mm, more than half of the year is arid , and only in the summer months from December to March there is significant precipitation averaging 65 to 85 mm per month.
Transport network
Sora Sora lies at a distance of thirty kilometers by road south of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
The 976 kilometer long national road Ruta 6 begins in Sora Sora and leads from here via Sucre east to the Paraguayan border.
A few kilometers to the west, near Machacamarca , the 1215 kilometers long Ruta 1 leads past Sora Sora in a north-south direction, which leads from Desaguadero (Bolivia) on the Peruvian border via El Alto and Oruro in the north to Potosí and Tarija in the south and ends at Bermejo on the border with Argentina .
population
The population of the village has changed only insignificantly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 88 | census |
| 2001 | 117 | census |
| 2012 | 99 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Machacamarca 71.2 percent of the population speak Quechua .
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 (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map Region Uncia 1: 250,000 (JPG; 8.3 MB)
- Municipio Machacamarca - General Maps No. 40702
- Municipio Machacamarca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 249 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )
