Official Name: | Orinoca |
Pushpin Map: | Bolivia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Bolivia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Bolivia |
Subdivision Type1: | Department |
Subdivision Name1: | Oruro Department |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Sud Carangas Province |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2001 |
Population Total: | 163 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Timezone: | BOT |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Coordinates: | -18.9672°N -67.2583°W |
Elevation M: | 3788 |
Orinoca is a small town in the Bolivian Oruro Department.
Orinoca has 163 inhabitants[1] (2001) and is the administrative center of Orinoca District. It is located at -18.9672°N -67.2583°W, 3,788 m above sea-level, 185 km south of the department's capital, Oruro, and 20 km west of Lake Poopó. 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]
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.