Turco (Oruro)
| Turco | |||
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 Plaza of Turco |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 574 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3856 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0402-0101-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 11 ′ S , 68 ° 12 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Sajama Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Turco |
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Turco is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Turco is the central place of the canton Turco , one of three cantons of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Turco in the province of Sajama . Turco is located on the western edge of the Oruro department at an altitude of 3856 m, almost one hundred kilometers from the Chilean border, on the right western bank of the Río Turco , which flows over the Río Lauca to the Salar de Coipasa salt lake . A wide alluvial plain extends southwest of Turco , which has been raised by the Río Sajama , the Río Cosapa and the Río Turco in the last millions of years .
geography
Turco is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the mountain range of the Serranía de Huayllamarca in the east. The region has a typical daytime climate in which the mean fluctuation in daytime temperatures is greater than the mean seasonal fluctuations.
The mean average temperature of the region is around 6 ° C, the annual precipitation is less than 300 mm (see climate diagram). The monthly average temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between just under 3 ° C in June / July and just under 9 ° C from December to February. The monthly precipitation is below 10 mm from April to October and reaches its maximum of 80 mm in January.
Transport network
Turco is located 214 kilometers west of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Oruro, the 169-kilometer unpaved road Ruta 31 leads west via La Joya to Curahuara de Carangas . From Curahuara , a dirt road leads south to Turco, 49 kilometers away .
population
The population of the village has decreased by about a third in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 846 | census |
| 2001 | 1 022 | census |
| 2012 | 574 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the province of Sajama 90.4 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.
- ↑ INE social data (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Raised relief map Nevado Sajama 1: 100,000 (PDF; 11.0 MB)
- Municipio Turco - General Maps No. 40402
- Municipio Turco - detailed map and population data (PDF; 746 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Oruro - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.86 MB) ( Spanish )