Huayllamarca
Santiago de Huayallamaca ( Aymara: Wayllamarka ) is a village in the department of Oruro in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
Santiago de Huayllamarca is the administrative seat of the province of Nor Carangas and central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Huayllamarca. The village lies at an altitude of 3893 m in the valley of the Río Huayllamarca on the eastern slopes of the Serranía de Huayllamarca, an approximately 100 km long ridge that extends on the Bolivian Altiplano in northwest -southeast direction.
Geography
Huayllamarca lies between the Andean mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Occidental in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano. The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day be more pronounced than in the course of the seasons.
The mean annual precipitation is about 330 mm and falls to 80 percent in the months from December to March (see climate chart Huayllamarca ). The annual average temperature is just under 8 ° C, the monthly average values vary between 4 ° C in June / July and about 10 ° C from November to March.
Traffic network
Huayllamarca lies at a distance of 121 kilometers of road northwest of Oruro, the capital of the department of the same name.
From Oruro from the paved highway Ruta 1 leads north to La Paz Caracollo and five kilometers behind Oruro branches off a dirt road to the north-west and crosses off after an additional 44 kilometers of the Río Desaguadero. From here the road leads through La Joya and Lajma southwest and reached after 42 kilometers Chuquichambi. Here branches off a side road off to the northwest and leads after 30 kilometers to Huayllamarca.
Population
The population of the town has risen in the last two decades by about half:
The vast majority of the region belongs to the indigenous people of the Aymara, in the province of Nor Carangas 96 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.