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Potosí Depairtment is a depairtment in soothwastren Bolivie. It comprises 118,218 km² wi 709,013 indwallers (2001 census). The caipital is the ceety o Potosí. It is maistly a barren, muntainous region wi ane muckle plateau tae the wast, whaur the mucklest salt flat in the warld, Salar de Uyuni, is locatit.
Depairtment o Potosí | |
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Location athin Bolivia | |
Coordinates: 20°40′0″S 66°40′0″W | |
Kintra | Bolivie |
Caipital | Potosí |
Govrenment | |
• Prefect | Mario Virreira |
Area | |
• Total | 118218 km2 (45,644 sq mi) |
Population (2001) | |
• Total | 709,013 |
• Density | 6.0/km2 (16/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC-4 (BOT) |
HDI (2004) | - |
Potosí wis the richest province in the Spaingie Empire, providin a great percentage o the siller that wis shippit tae Europe.
It is the location o the San Cristóbal siller, zinc an lead mines an aw, developit bi the US-company Apex Siller Mines Leemitit o Colorado an in November 2008 sauld tae the Japanese Sumitomo Corporation.
The depairtment is dividit intae 16 provinces which are further supbdividit intae 40 municipalities [1] (municipios) an 219 cantons (cantónes).
Province | Caipital | km² | Inhabitants | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alonso de Ibáñez | Sacaca | 2.170 | 29.821 | |
Antonio Quijarro | Uyuni | 14.890 | 37.431 | |
Bernardino Bilbao | Arampampa | 640 | 10.850 | |
Charcas | San Pedro de Buena Vista | 2.964 | 41.651 | |
Chayanta | Colquechaca | 7.026 | 98.946 | |
Cornelio Saavedra | Betanzos | 2.375 | 61.398 | |
Daniel Campos | Llica | 12.106 | 5.270 | |
Enrique Baldivieso | San Agustín | 2.254 | 1.827 | |
José María Linares | Puna | 5.136 | 50.817 | |
Modesto Omiste | Villazón | 2.260 | 38.364 | |
Nor Chichas | Cotagaita | 8.979 | 32.946 | |
Colcha "K" | 20.892 | 11.594 | ||
Rafael Bustillo | Uncía | 2.235 | 75.599 | |
Sud Chichas | Tupiza | 8.516 | 47.005 | |
Sud Lípez |
San Pablo de Lípez | 22.355 | 5.284 | |
Potosí | 3.420 | 189.978 |
The leids spoken in the depairtment are mainly Quechua, Spaingie an Aymara. The follaein table shows the nummer o those belangin tae the recognizit group o speakers.[2]
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