Andamarca (Oruro)

Anda Marca (also: Santiago de Anda Marca ) is a village in the department of Oruro in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia. The establishment of Andamarca goes back to the year 1723.

Location in near space

Anda Marca is the administrative seat of the province of Sud Carangas and central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Andamarca and is located 120 km southwest of the city of Oruro. It lies at an altitude of 3,748 m above sea level on the eastern edge of the southern foothills of the Serranía de Huayllamarca, an approximately 100 km long ridge that extends on the Altiplano in the northwest -southeast direction. The town is located on the Ruta de los Tres Siglos from Oruro to Santuario de Quillacas, 10 km west of Poopó Lake and 15 km south-east of Laguna Jayu Kkota.

Geography

Anda Marca is located west of the Poopó lake on the eastern edge of the Altiplano before the Cordillera Azanaques, which is a part of the mountain range of the Cordillera Central. The climate is a typical diurnal climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are stronger than the variations between seasons.

The mean average temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C (see climate chart Pampa Aullagas ) and varies between 4 ° C in June and July and 11 ° C in the summer months from November to March. The annual rainfall is less than 300 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to November month precipitation less than 15 mm, and a maximum value of 75 mm in January.

Traffic network

Anda Marca is located at a distance of 116 kilometers of road south-west of Oruro, the capital of the department of the same name.

From Oruro from the unpaved highway Ruta 12 runs in a southwesterly direction 62 miles above Toledo to Villa Copacabana. From there branches a also unpaved road to the south, which leads over Laca Laca Quita Quita by Anda Marca and on about Eduardo Avaroa after Orinoca, the birthplace of the first indigenous president of Bolivia, Evo Morales.

Population

The population of the town was subject to significant fluctuations over the past two decades:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, it presents a certain amount of Aymara population in the municipality of Anda Marca 88.5 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.