OcurÃ, PotosÃ
Ocurí is a village in the department of Potosí in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
Ocurí is the central place of the homonymous district ( bolivian: Municipio) Ocurí in the province Chayanta. The village is situated on a ridge at an altitude of 4026 m on the Rio Ocurí, a tributary of Río Guadalupe and Rio Guadalajara.
Geography
Ocurí lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central in the east. The climate of the region is a typical diurnal climate, in which the mean temperature fluctuation between day and night clearer than between summer and winter.
The average annual temperature in the long-term average is about 4 ° C (see climate chart Colquechaca ), the monthly values are between 0 ° C in June / July and 6 ° C from November to January. The annual rainfall is 460 mm, May-August, there is a drying time of less than 5 mm of rainfall per month, while the precipitation height reached in January and February about 100 mm.
Traffic network
Ocurí lies at a distance of one hundred kilometers of road north of Potosí, the capital of the department of the same name.
The village is located on the highway Ruta 6, the direct road connection from Oruro to Sucre. The nearly one thousand kilometer long highway Ruta 6 connects the Departamento Chuquisaca with the Department of Santa Cruz, the Potosí Department and the department of Oruro.
Population
The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by about a fifth:
Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Ocurí 98.5 percent of the population speak the Quechua language ( 2001).
Economy
Near Ocurí are the Lípez Huaico mine and mine Ocurí with tin and zinc mining.
Featuring a 60 -bed hospital can be found in Ocurí the Universidad Técnica de Ocurí, a vocational training center for rural professionals with a two- year apprenticeship in the fields of health, agriculture and livestock industry and rural construction, the of the CENPRUR (Centro Nacional de Profesionalización ) entertained will.