Huanuni

Huanuni is a town in the department of Oruro in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The city is the administrative center of the province Huanuni Pantalà Dalence and central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Huanuni and lies at an altitude of 3957 m on the Rio Huanuni.

Geography

Huanuni located on the Bolivian Altiplano at the western edge of the Cordillera Azanaques, a section of the Cordillera Central. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate, the average temperature variation during the day is more pronounced than in the course of the seasons.

The average annual temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C, the monthly values ​​vary between 4 ° C in June / July and 11 ° C from November to March (see climate chart Huanuni ). The annual rainfall is only 350 mm low from April to October, a pronounced dry season, with monthly values ​​of less than 10 mm, only from December to March fall appreciable month rainfall 55-85 mm.

Traffic network

Huanuni lies at a distance of 49 kilometers of road southeast of Oruro, the capital of the department of the same name.

From Oruro the paved highway Ruta 1 leads in a southerly direction 30 kilometers to Machacamarca. There, the only branches also paved Ruta 6 in a southeasterly direction and reaches after a further 22 kilometers Huanuni. The Ruta 6 leads as unpaved road continues over Llallagua and Uncia to Sucre.

Economy

Since May 28, 2004 Huanuni is the Zinnhauptstadt Bolivia. Herein lies on and around the mountain Posokoni the largest tin mine in South America, are degraded in the 5 percent of the world's tin funded, monthly 400-500 tons. For the mines of Huanuni an eight-hour day, the establishment of a mine worker Foundation was enforced in 1919, in 1944.

After the collapse of the international Zinnmarktes in the 1980s, the state mining company COMIBOL ( Corporación Minera de Bolivia ) was forced to close the nation's numerous mines and lay off 30,000 miners, including in Huanuni. While many of the Mineros continued to work on their own or in small cooperatives, the Bolivian government awarded the mining rights in Huanuni later to the British company Allied Deals (later RBG Resources ), which went bankrupt in 2005. After the mine fell on local law back to the Bolivian state back.

In the two decades before 2005, the Minero cooperatives, however, had bought into the shares of the British owner, possibly the Huanuni mine for the equivalent of one and a half million dollars to take over the private sector. The current Bolivian government considers these blocks of shares, however, illegal since it had not been constitutionally been the privatization of the mine under the dictator Hugo Banzer and Jorge Quiroga his chosen successor. In October 2006, the conflict between the small share owners and the state-employed miners erupted into armed conflict with more than ten deaths. As a result of the dispute dismissed President Evo Morales mining of his cabinet ministers, Walter Villaroel, as well as the head of the state mining company COMIBOL.

Population

The population of the city Huanuni has increased following a decline in the 1970s and 1980s in the past two decades back to the old value:

The region is characterized by a high proportion of indigenous population in the province Pantalà Dalence 69.8 percent of the population speak Quechua language.