Salinas de Garci Mendoza

Salinas de Garcí Mendoza (formerly Salinas de Thunapa ) is a village in the department of Oruro in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Salinas de Garcí Mendoza is the administrative seat of the province Ladislao Cabrera and central location in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Salinas de Garcí Mendoza. The village lies at an altitude of 3733 m at the foot of Cerro Caricha ( 4227 m), Twenty kilometers north of the stratovolcano Tunupa. Also twenty kilometers northwest of Salinas de Mendoza Garcí the Salar de Coipasa fifteen kilometers to the south-east of the Salar de Uyuni, the largest salt lake in the world.

Geography

Salinas de Garcí Mendoza is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east.

The climate is arid, the annual rainfall is only 200 mm (see climate chart Salinas de Garcí Mendoza), with a pronounced dry season from April to November only sporadic rainfall; only in summer from December to March fall precipitation between 20 and 70 mm per month. The mean average temperature of the region is about 4.5 ° C and varies only slightly between 0 ° C in July and 7 ° C in January.

Traffic network

Salinas de Garcí Mendoza is located at a distance of 261 kilometers of road southwest of the capital Departamento Oruro.

From Oruro from the highway Ruta 1 covers a distance of 116 kilometers in a southerly direction through the towns Machacamarca and Poopó after Challapata. In Challapata the Ruta 30 branches off to the south-west and leads after 30 kilometers of Santiago de Huari to the Río Laca Jahuira. Immediately after crossing the riverbed branches off a dirt road in a westerly direction from that reached by Santuario de Quillacas, Bengal Vinto and Villa Esperanza to 115 kilometers Salinas de Garcí Mendoza.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by almost half:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Salinas de Mendoza Garcí 85.3 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.

Economy

Southeast of the village is operated on a alluvial plane of 10 km ² intensive cultivation of quinoa, which is worked in the city itself in a processing plant for distribution in Bolivia and for export, so that Salinas de Garcí Mendoza today known as the " capital of the quinoa " bears.