San Vicente (Potosí)
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 View over San Vicente |
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| Residents (state) | 724 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 4498 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0802-0102-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 16 ′ S , 66 ° 19 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Sur Chichas Province | ||
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 Climate diagram San Vicente |
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San Vicente is a town in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
San Vicente is a central place in the canton of San Vicente and is located in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Atocha in the province of Sur Chichas . The village lies at an altitude of 4498 m and is an old mining village , in the vicinity of which zinc and silver are mined. The mines are in the hands of "Emusa", a mining consortium made up of the Canadian company Pan American Silver and the Bolivian COMIBOL .
geography
San Vicente is located on the Bolivian Altiplano in the northern part of the Andean mountain range of the Cordillera de Lípez . The region's climate is arid and has a time-of-day climate.
The mean annual temperature of the region is around 4 ° C (see climate diagram San Vicente), with a monthly average of just under 0 ° C in June / July and 7 ° C in December and January. The annual precipitation is a low 190 mm, whereby the months April to October are almost free of precipitation. Significant precipitation falls only from November to March, with a maximum of 50 mm monthly precipitation in January.
Transport network
San Vicente is located at a distance of 369 kilometers by road southwest of Potosí , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Potosí, the Ruta 5 trunk road leads 208 kilometers in a south-westerly direction to Uyuni , from there Ruta 21 for a further 96 kilometers south-east to Atocha . From Atocha a country road leads in a south-easterly direction along the old railway line 23 kilometers to Escoriani and then leaves the railway line in a south-westerly direction. It reaches Portugalete after thirteen kilometers and San Vicente after another 29 kilometers . From there, an unpaved but fairly well-developed country road leads in a south-westerly direction to San Pablo de Lípez, 88 kilometers away .
population
The population of the place has increased by more than half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | no data | census |
| 2001 | 50 | census |
| 2012 | 724 | 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.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The local cemetery has a plaque commemorating the deaths of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1908 in San Vicente. Allegedly, the two US bandits were buried in the local cemetery after they had robbed a money transport near Tupiza and stopped in San Vicente with their loot. In 1992 the bones of the "US desperados" were exhumed at the specified location, but the subsequent DNA test showed that the recovered remains were a German engineer named Gustav Zimmer, a contemporary of the two bandits. The nameless grave is still a destination for foreign tourists, without the town being able to capitalize on it.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our treatment begins at San Vicente ( English )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ 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 (PDF; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the San Pablo de Lípez region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 4.48 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 )
- Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid ( English )