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Orinoca is a district

District

Districts are a type of administrative division, in some countries managed by a local government. They vary greatly in size, spanning entire regions or counties, several municipalities, or subdivisions of municipalities.-Austria:...

(cantón) in the Andamarca Municipality in the Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

n Sud Carangas Province

Sud Carangas Province

Sud Carangas is a province in the central parts of the Bolivian department of Oruro.-Location:Sud Carangas province is one of the sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department...

in Oruro Department

Oruro Department

Oruro is a department in Bolivia, with an area of 53,588 km². Its capital is the city of Oruro. At the time of census 2001 it had a population of 391,870.- Provinces of Oruro :...

.

Location

The Orinoca District is located at 18°58′S 67°15′W, 3,800 m above sea-level, on the western shore of Lake Poopó

Poopó

Poopó Lake is a large saline lake located in a shallow depression in the Altiplano Mountains in Bolivia at an altitude of approximately 3,700 metres. Because the lake is long and wide it makes up the eastern half of the Oruro Department, a mining region in southwest Bolivia...

, 180 km (115 mi) south of Oruro

Oruro, Bolivia

Oruro is a city in Bolivia with a population of 235,393 , located about equidistant between La Paz and Sucre at approximately 3710 meters above sea level. It is the capital of the department of Oruro....

. Its extension from north to south and from east to west is 35 km.

Population

The population of the district increased at 34.0 % from 1,259 inhabitants (census

Census

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1992) to 1,687 inhabitants (2001), there is no urban population in this district. 44.9 % of the population are younger than 15 years old, the rate of literacy

Literacy

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is 77.7 % (1992).

Main idiom

Idiom

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of the province is Aymara

Aymara language

Aymara is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over three million speakers. Aymara, along with Quechua and Spanish, is an official language of Peru and Bolivia...

, spoken by 97.0 %, while 76.7 % of the population speak Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

and 43.3 % Quechua (1992).

71.4 % of the population are Catholics

Roman Catholicism in Bolivia

The Roman Catholic Church in Bolivia is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome....

, 17.5 % are Protestants

Iglesia Anglicana del Cono Sur de las Americas

The Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America is the ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Communion that covers the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay....

(1992).

The village of Isallawi in the Orinoca District is the birthplace of Evo Morales

Evo Morales

Juan Evo Morales Ayma , popularly known as Evo , is a Bolivian politician and activist, currently serving as the 80th President of Bolivia, a position that he has held since 2006. He is also the leader of both the Movement for Socialism party and the cocalero trade union...

, Bolivia's President.

Living standard

97.5 % of the population have no access to sanitary facilities

Tap water

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, 100.0 % have no electricity

Electricity generation

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(1992).

Economy and infrastructure

The rural population is largely dedicated to agriculture (potato

Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family . The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species...

es, wheat

Wheat

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, corn

Maize

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and onion

Onion

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s) and raise herds of llamas and vicuña

Vicuña

The vicuña or vicugna is one of two wild South American camelids, along with the guanaco, which live in the high alpine areas of the Andes. It is a relative of the llama, and is now believed to share a wild ancestor with domesticated alpacas, which are raised for their fibre...

s. Orinoca is only accessible by road travel, there is a bus service that reaches the town twice a week.

Division

The district is subdivided in the following subdistricts and hamlet

Hamlet

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s and village

Village

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s (localidades), in brackets the population of 2001: