Santiago de Huari

Santiago de Huari (or even: Huari ) is a country town in the department of Oruro in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Santiago de Huari is the capital of the province Sebastián Pagador and central location in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Santiago de Huari. The city lies at an altitude of 3742 m at the mouth of the Río Azanaques which flows 10 km to the west in the southern part of Poopó lake.

Geography

Santiago de Huari is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The region's climate is arid and characterized by a typical time of day climate.

The mean average temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C and varies only slightly between 5 ° C in June and July and 11 ° C from November to March. The annual rainfall is around 300 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to October month rainfall below 10 mm, and only a few months with sufficient moisture, the wettest month is January with just over 70 mm monthly rainfall.

Traffic network

Santiago de Huari is located at a distance of 139 kilometers of road south of Oruro, the capital of the department.

From Oruro from the highway Ruta 1 leads south and reached after 53 kilometers, the city Poopó and after another 63 kilometers, the village Challapata. From here, the Ruta 30 performs a further 23 kilometers to the south to Santiago de Huari. The Ruta 30 runs further south on Sevaruyo and Rio Mulato to Uyuni.

Population

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

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, it presents a significant proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Santiago de Huari 45.1 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.

Economy

The population lives mainly from the cultivation of staple food quinoa, potatoes and beans, which is operated on the basis of sandy and nutrient-poor soils only extensively and almost exclusively of self-sufficiency is. Fishing in the nearby lake Poopó is no longer possible because the lake water is highly polluted by waste water from the tin mines and the water volume of the lake has declined sharply due to the climate changes.