Municipio Potosí

Municipio Potosí
	; Lagunas de Kari Kari
Basic data
Population (state) ; - population density	189,652 inhabitants (2012 census) ; 152 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	05-0101
Telephone code	(+591)
surface	1,246 km²
height	3900 m
Coordinates	19 ° 35 ′ S , 65 ° 43 ′ W Coordinates: 19 ° 35 ′ S , 65 ° 43 ′ W
	Municipio Potosí
	Municipio Potosí
politics
Department	Potosí
province	Tomás Frías Province
Central place	Potosí
	; Location of the Municipio Potosí in the department
climate
	; Climate diagram Potosí

The Municipio Potosí is a district in the Potosí Department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

The Municipio Potosí is one of four Municipios in the Tomás Frías Province . It borders on the municipality of Yocalla to the west, the municipality of Tinguipaya to the north, the province of Cornelio Saavedra to the east, the province of José María Linares to the south, and the province of Antonio Quijarro to the southwest .

The central place of the municipality is the city of Potosí with 174,973 inhabitants ( 2012 ) in the western, central area of the district.

geography

The municipality of Potosí is located in the eastern part of the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andean high mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The climate is semi-arid and a typical time of day climate , in which the daily temperature fluctuations are more pronounced than the seasonal fluctuations.

The average annual temperature in the municipality of Potosí is 11.4 ° C (see Potosí climate diagram), the monthly values vary between 8 ° C in June / July and a good 13 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is only about 350 mm, whereby in the summer months from April to October there is less than 15 mm of precipitation, and only the period from December to February has significant monthly precipitation between 60 and 80 mm.

population

The population of the Municipio Potosí has increased by about half in the past two decades:

1992 : 123,381 inhabitants ( census )
2001 : 145,057 inhabitants (census)
2012 : 189,652 inhabitants (update)

The life expectancy of newborns is 63 years, the literacy rate for those over 15 years of age is 89 percent, and the proportion of the urban population in the municipality is 92 percent. ( 2001 )

politics

Results of the elections for the municipal council ( concejales del municipio ) in the regional elections on April 4, 2010:

electoral legitimate		electoral participation	valid votes		AS	MAS-IPSP	FCRP	ACU	SPP	MSM
108.020		93,363	70,585		32,400	24,419	6,487	3,217	3,108	954
		86.4%	75.6%		45.9%	34.6%	9.2%	4.6%	4.4%	1.4%

structure

The municipality is divided into the following four cantons ( cantones ):

05-0101-01 Canton Potosí - 52 localities - 179.901 inhabitants - central place: Potosí
05-0101-02 Canton Tarapaya - 12 villages - 764 inhabitants - central place: Tarapaya
05-0101-03 Canton Huari Huari - 19 villages - 3,152 inhabitants - central place: Huari Huari
05-0101-04 Canton Chulchucani - 76 localities - 5,835 inhabitants - central place: Chiltera Grande