Nor Lípez Province

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Nor Lípez Province
location
Basic data
Country Bolivia
Department Potosí
Seat Colcha "K"
surface 20,892 km²
Residents 14,057 (2012)
density 0.7 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 BO-P
Atulcha
Atulcha

Coordinates: 20 ° 55 ′  S , 67 ° 13 ′  W

Nor Lípez is a province in the southwestern part of the Potosí department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

Laguna Hedionda salt lake
Flamingos at Laguna Hedionda

The province of Nor Lípez is one of sixteen provinces in the Department of Potosí. It borders in the north with the province of Daniel Campos , in the west with the Republic of Chile , in the south with the province Enrique Baldivieso and the province Sur Lípez , in the east with the province Sur Chichas , in the northeast with the province Antonio Quijarro , and in the far north to the Oruro Department . The province extends for about 270 kilometers in an east-west direction and 210 kilometers in a north-south direction.

population

The population of the province of Nor Lípez has increased by around two thirds over the past two decades:

  • 1992 : 8,320 inhabitants ( census )
  • 2001 : 10,460 inhabitants (census)
  • 2012 : 14,057 inhabitants (census)

The capital of the province is Colcha "K" . The most important idioms of the province with 89 percent each are in equal parts Quechua and Spanish .

96 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 93 percent live without sanitary facilities. 61 percent of the population work in agriculture , 9 percent in mining , 2 percent in industry and 28 percent in services. 90 percent of the population are Catholic, 6 percent Protestant.

economy

In 1996, large silver deposits were discovered in the vicinity of the municipality of San Cristóbal in the municipality of Colcha "K" . The Banzer government (1997–2002) created the legal requirements for the development of the site and relocated the community. In August 2007, which was open pit "San Cristobal" ( Spanish Minera San Cristóbal ) opened with the annual output of 525 tons of silver , 225,000 tonnes of zinc and 82,000 tons of lead , the world's third largest silver and fifth largest zinc mine is. The raw daily output is 40,000 t.

The opencast mine is supplied with energy from the city of Punutuma . A 65-kilometer branch line was built in 2007 to transport the ore concentrates, which connects the open-cast mine with the Chilean port of Mejillones . In November 2008 the open pit mine was sold by Apex Silver Mines Ltd to the Japanese Sumitomo group. At this point in time it had a planned remaining term of another 16 years.

structure

The province is divided into the following two districts ( Bolivian : Municipios ):

Localities in the province of Nor Lípez

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 1992
  2. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2001
  3. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2012 ( Memento of the original of 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. ↑ Multilateralism, Population Displacement & Resettlement in San Cristóbal Silver Mines, Bolivia (English)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.allacademic.com  
  5. ↑ Thermo Fisher Scientfic (PDF; 397 kB)
  6. ↑ Stock check

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