Ucumasi
| Ucumasi | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 133 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3762 m | ||
| Post Code | 04-0801-0500-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 8 ′ S , 67 ° 25 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Oruro | ||
| province | Ladislao Cabrera Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Salinas de Garcí Mendoza |
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Ucumasi is a town in the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Ucumasi is the central place of the canton Ucumasi in the municipality of Salinas de Garcí Mendoza in the province of Ladislao Cabrera . The village is located at an altitude of 3762 m eight kilometers south of the Río Laca Jahuira , which flows from Lake Poopó in a westerly direction to the Salar de Coipasa .
geography
Ucumasi 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
Ucumasi is located at a distance of 239 kilometers by road southwest of Oruro , the capital of the department.
The Ruta 1 road leads south from Oruro and reaches the town of Poopó after 53 kilometers and the town of Challapata after another 63 kilometers . From here, the Ruta leads 30 kilometers south via Santiago de Huari . After crossing a river, a dirt road turns southwest and after 19 kilometers leads to Santuario de Quillacas .
The road continues in a south-westerly direction via Bengal Vinto and Playa Verde to Salinas de Garcí Mendoza and the salt lake Salar de Uyuni . In Playa Verde, an inconspicuous unpaved side road branches off in a northerly direction, reaches Aroma after a further ten kilometers , and from there a country road also leads in a northerly direction to Ucumasi, 25 kilometers away .
population
The population of the village has decreased drastically in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 252 | census |
| 2012 | 133 | 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 .
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 Río Mulato region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.12 MB)
- Relief map of the Ucumasi region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 806 kB)
- 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 )