Orinoca

Orinoca is a village in the department of Oruro in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Orinoca is the central place of the Canton Orinoca district ( bolivian: Municipio) Andamarca in the province of Sud Carangas. The village lies at an altitude of 3788 m about twenty kilometers west of Poopó lake on the Bolivian highlands.

Geography

Orinoca located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano and west of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central. The climate is a typical diurnal climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are stronger than the average fluctuations between the seasons.

The mean average temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C (see climate chart Pampa Aullagas ) and varies between 4 ° C in June and July and 11 ° C in the summer months from November to March. The annual rainfall is less than 300 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to November month precipitation less than 15 mm, and a maximum value of 75 mm in January.

Traffic

Orinoca located south of Oruro, the capital of the department of the same name at a distance of 162 kilometers of road.

Until a few years ago, the village was only accessible by unpaved road routes and was hit twice weekly by a bus. Since the election of Evo Morales, who comes from the region Orinoca, as president, the region has, however, undergone a revaluation and is accessible now at least from the south on Pampa Aullagas and Santuario de Quillacas on a paved road.

From the north, Oruro, leads the unpaved highway Ruta 12 in a southwesterly direction 62 miles above Toledo to Villa Copacabana. From there branches a also unpaved road to the south, which leads over Laca Laca Quita Quita by Anda Marca and Eduardo Avaroa and from there to Orinoca. The road from here in a southwesterly direction to the town of Pampa Aullagas on the southern edge of the Poopó lake.

Population

After the inhabitants of the village had more than halved in the decade from 1992 to 2001, it has since risen to a multiple of:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Anda Marca 88.5 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.

Sons and daughters of the town

The Bolivian President Evo Morales comes from the village Isallawi at Orinoca.