Orinoca

Orinoca
Orinoca Location in Bolivia
Coordinates: 18°58′02″S67°15′30″W / 18.96722°S 67.25833°W / -18.96722; -67.25833
Country	Bolivia
Department	Oruro Department
Province	Sud Carangas Province
Elevation	12,428 ft (3,788 m)
Population  (2001)
• Total	163
Time zone	UTC-4 (BOT)

Orinoca is a small town in the Bolivian Oruro Department.

Orinoca had 163 inhabitants ^[1] as of 2001 and is the administrative center of Orinoca District. It is located at 3,788 m above sea-level, 185 km south of the department's capital, Oruro, and 20 km west of Lake Poopó. ^[A]

Orinoca is accessible by road, and a bus service that serves the town twice a week.

The village of Isallavi in the Orinoca District is the birthplace of Evo Morales, the President of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019.

Notes

1. The second-largest lake in Bolivia was dried up as of December 2015, except for a few marshy patches, and officials do not know if it can recover from an extended drought. ^{[2] [3]}

References

1. Localidades ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
2. Mercado, David. "Lake Poopo Dries Up". Reuters. Archived from the original on 19 December 2015.
3. Paskevics, Emily (19 December 2015). "Lake Poopó, Second Largest In Bolivia, Dries Up Completely". Headlines & Global News (HNGN). Archived from the original on 9 February 2016.

External links

• Detailed province map