Atocha (Bolivia)
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 View of Atocha |
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| Residents (state) | 2240 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 170 | ||
| height | 3656 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0802-0600-7001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+571) | ||
| Coordinates | 20 ° 56 ′ S , 66 ° 13 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Sur Chichas Province | ||
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 Climate diagram Atocha |
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Atocha is a town in the Potosí department in the highlands of the Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Atocha is the central place of the Municipio Atocha in the province of Sur Chichas and is located at an altitude of 3656 m on the hardly used railway line between Oruro and Uyuni in the north and Tupiza in the south. The village is located at the mouth of the Río Allyta ( also : Allita) in the Río Atocha , which flows northeast on the northern edge of the village and flows downstream into the Río Cotagaita .
geography
Atocha is located on the Bolivian Altiplano in the northern foothills of the Andes 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 daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the temperature fluctuations over the course of the year.
The mean annual temperature of the region is 11 ° C (see Atocha climate diagram), with a monthly average of 6–7 ° C in June / July and 13–14 ° 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
Atocha is 304 kilometers by road southwest of Potosí , the capital of the department.
From Potosí, the national national road Ruta 5 leads 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 kilometers long Ruta 21 , which runs about halfway through Atocha .
population
The population of Atocha has decreased by about a fifth in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 2,739 | census |
| 2001 | 2 033 | census |
| 2013 | 2 240 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Atocha 60.1 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
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.
- ↑ INE social data 2001 ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2011 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. (PDF; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Uyuni region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.19 MB)
- Municipio Atocha - General Maps No. 50802
- Sud Chichas - detailed map and population data (PDF; 625 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )