Carangas (Oruro)

Carangas is a village in the department of Oruro in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Carangas is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Carangas in the province of Puerto de Mejillones. The village lies at an altitude of 3876 m on the Rio Kholana, a tributary of the Río Sabaya, which drains to the salt lake Salar de Coipasa out.

Geography

The climate in the region is semi-arid, the annual rainfall is only 200 mm (see climate chart Sabaya ). From April to November the dry season with monthly values ​​of less than 10 mm of rainfall, the humidity in the summer time is short and the rain not very productive. The annual average temperature is about 7 ° C without significant variations during the year, but with considerable daily fluctuations in temperature and frequent freeze-thaw cycles.

The vegetation in the region corresponding to the semi-arid Puna. It is treeless and is composed mainly of thorn bushes, grasses, succulents and cushion plants. It is economically used as a llama, alpaca and sheep pasture.

Traffic network

Carangas is located 230 kilometers by road south-west of Oruro, the capital of the department of the same name.

From Oruro leads the largely unpaved Ruta 12 highway about 189 km in a south-westerly direction over Ancaravi and Huachacalla to Sabaya and on to Pisiga to the Chilean border. In Sabaya branches off a dirt road leads off to the west and another 41 km along the Río Sabaya about La Rivera to Carangas.

Population

The population of the town has declined significantly over the decade between the censuses of 1992 and 2001:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, it presents a significant proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Carangas 29.7 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.