Animas
| Animas | |||
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 Animas mine settlement |
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| Basic data | |||
| Full name | Ánimas | ||
| Residents (state) | 1599 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 4177 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0802-0500-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 20 ° 58 ′ S , 66 ° 18 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Sur Chichas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Atocha |
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Animas (also: Ánimas ) is a town in the Potosí department in the southern part of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Animas, with the neighboring town of Siete Suyos, is one of the most populous localities in the canton of Chocaya in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Atocha in the province of Sur Chichas . The mining settlement is located at an altitude of 4177 m southwest of Atocha on the banks of the sporadically flowing Río Chocaya , which leads to the Río Atocha . The nearest towns are the Siete Suyos mining settlement three kilometers northeast of Animas, and the Chocaya settlement southwest of Animas at the end of the Chocaya Valley. The ridges northwest and southeast of Animas reach heights of up to 4,400 m.
geography
Animas is located on the Bolivian Altiplano in the northern foothills of the Andean mountain range of the Cordillera de Lípez . The climate of the region is arid and has a clear time-of-day climate, in which the mean daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the temperature fluctuations over the course of the year.
The mean annual temperature of the region is around 8 ° C due to the altitude, around 3 ° C lower than in Atocha (compare climate diagram Atocha), with a monthly average of 3 ° C in June / July and 10 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is a low 200 mm, with the months April to October being almost free of precipitation. Significant precipitation falls only from November to March, with a maximum of around 50 mm monthly precipitation in January.
Transport network
Animas is located at a distance of 305 kilometers by road southwest of Potosí , the capital of the department.
From Potosí, the national highway Ruta 5 runs in a south-westerly direction for 208 kilometers to Uyuni at the Salar de Uyuni salt lake . The city of Uyuni is connected to the city of Tupiza by the 197-kilometer Ruta 21 , which runs about halfway through Atocha . Coming from Uyuni, at the mouth of the Río Chocaya eight kilometers before Atocha, a dirt road branches off in a south-westerly direction, which after nine kilometers reaches Animas and after another four kilometers the mining settlement of Chocaya .
population
The population of Animas has almost doubled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 655 | census |
| 2001 | 1 025 | census |
| 2012 | 1 599 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, a large proportion of the regional population belongs to the Quechua ethnic group . At the last census in 2001, 70 percent of the population in the municipality of Atocha spoke the Quechua language.
Mineral finds
The entire area in the canton of Chocaya is very rich in minerals and a corresponding number of minerals could also be detected in Animas. Since the mines of Animas, Siete Suyos , Oploca and Chocaya all move in the same system of ducts in the surrounding mountains, the ore and mineral finds in the mines are inevitably similar . In addition, the villages are only a few kilometers apart. Assignment difficulties and errors on the part of the various collectors and researchers cannot be ruled out. When labeling the mineral samples or in the lists of scientific literatures, the simplified description of the location of the "Chocaya Animas" mine is often found.
In the mines of Animas following minerals have been found so far: Andorit , apatite , Argyrodit , arsenopyrite , Augelith , Bismuthinit , Canfieldit , chalcopyrite , Fizélyit , Franckeit , Freibergit , galena , gypsum , Hocartit , Jamesonit , cassiterite (variety Holzzinn ) Löllingit , Marcasite , Miargyrite , Owyheeit , Pyrite , Quartz , Ramdohrite , Roshchinite , Siderite , Sphalerite , Stannite , Stephanite , Tetrahedrite , Wavellite , Wurtzite and Zinkenite . Animas is also type locality for the mineral aramayoite .
Individual evidence
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Mindat - Mineral list for Animas Mine, Atocha-Quechisla District, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia (English)
Web links
- Relief map of the Uyuni region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.19 MB)
- Municipio Atocha - General Maps No. 50802
- Municipio Atocha - detailed map and population data (PDF; 625 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - Social data of the provinces and municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )