Orinoca

Orinoca is a small town in the Bolivian Oruro Department.

Orinoca has 163 inhabitants (2001) and is the administrative center of Orinoca District. It is located at 18°58′02″S 67°15′30″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.

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 since 2006.