Machacamarca (Oruro)

Machacamarca is a country town in the department of Oruro in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The city is Machacamarca central place of the eponymous district ( bolivian: Municipio) Machacamarca in the province Pantalà Dalence. It is located on the southeastern shore of Uru Uru Lake, south of the city of Oruro to the road and railway line to Poopó, both branch off to Catavi - mining area.

Geography

Machacamarca lies at an altitude of 3728 m on the left bank of the Río Huanuni, which flows into the Uru Uru Lake. The city is bounded on the east by the high mountain ranges of the Cordillera Central.

The climate is cold and dry, the vegetation of the Puna. The annual average temperature is below 10 ° C and the annual precipitation at low 400 mm (see climate chart Oruro ).

Traffic network

Machacamarca located south of Oruro, the capital of the department of the same name at a distance of thirty kilometers of road.

By Machacamarca the 1215 km long paved highway Ruta 1 leads in a north-south direction. It runs from Desaguadero (Bolivia ) to the Peruvian border on El Alto and Oruro in the north continues to Potosí and Tarija in the south and ends at Bermejo on the border with Paraguay.

In Machacamarca also begins the 976 km long highway Ruta 6, which leads over Sucre the Brazilian border.

Population

The population of the town was subject to strong fluctuations in the past two decades:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Machacamarca 71.2 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.