Toledo (Oruro)
Toledo is a town in the department of Oruro in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
Toledo is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Toledo and capital of the province Saucarí. The village lies at an altitude of 3715 m between the rivers of the Río Matar Jahuira in the west and the Río Vinto Jahuira in the east, drain both the Poopó lake.
Geography
Toledo is located in the eastern part of the Bolivian Altiplano between the Serranía de Huayllamarca in the west and the Cordillera Azanaques in the east, which in turn is part of the Bolivian Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central.
The climate is equatorial position because of a typical diurnal climate and due to the altitude semiarid cool and dry. The mean average temperature of the region is about 10 ° C (see climate chart Oruro ), the monthly average values vary only slightly between 6 ° C in June / July and about 14 ° C in November / December. The annual rainfall is only 400 mm, with a distinct dry season from May to August with monthly rainfall less than 10 mm, and a short time humidity from December to March with 60-85 mm month precipitation.
Traffic network
Toledo is located at a distance of 37 kilometers of road south-west of Oruro, the capital of the department.
Through Toledo leads the 279 km long highway Ruta 12, which runs from Pisiga to the Chilean border to the northeast over Sabaya, Huachacalla, Ancaravi and Toledo capital Oruro and on to Caihuasi. In Oruro it crosses the north- south running highway Ruta 1 from Lake Titicaca through El Alto, Oruro and Potosí to Bermejo. In Caihuasi it meets the Ruta 4, which leads west to Cochabamba, Santa Cruz and Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border.
Population
The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to nearly double:
Due to the historically evolved population distribution, it presents a significant proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Toledo 69.2 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.