Corque

Corque ( Aymara: Kurki ) is a village in the department of Oruro in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Corque is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Corque and administrative center of the province Carangas. The village lies at an altitude of 3775 m in the valley of the Río Corque at the southern end of the Serranía de Huayllamarca, of a 100- kilometer-long ridge that extends on the Altiplano in the northwest -southeast direction.

Geography

Corque is located in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano, between the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Occidental. The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate where the average temperatures fluctuate more during the day than during the year.

The annual average temperature is good 7 ° C ( see climate chart Corque ), monthly average values ​​vary between 3 ° C in June / July and about 10 ° C from December to February. The mean annual precipitation is about 300 mm and falls to 80 percent in the months of December to March, the rest of the year is arid with monthly values ​​of less than 15 mm.

Population

The population of the city has declined slightly over the past two decades:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Corque 93.1 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.