Santa Bárbara (Potosí)
| Santa Bárbara | |||
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 Santa Bárbara on the slope of the Chorolque |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 2221 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 174 | ||
| height | 4774 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0802-0800-1701 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 20 ° 55 ′ S , 66 ° 3 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Sur Chichas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Santa Bárbara |
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Santa Bárbara (also: Chorolque ) is a country town in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
location
Santa Bárbara is the most populous city in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Atocha in the province of Sur Chichas , by more than 500 inhabitants before the provincial capital Atocha . The city lies at an altitude of 4774 m at the foot of the Cerro Chorolque , a 5552 m high mountain that is rich in ore deposits of tin , bismuth , silver , gold and copper and is exploited from different sides by the "Chorolque" mine.
geography
Santa Bárbara is located on the Bolivian Altiplano in the northern foothills of the Andean mountain range of the Cordillera de Lípez . The climate in this region is semi-arid and characterized by a clear daytime climate.
The mean average temperature of the region is about 5 ° C (see climate diagram Santa Bárbara) and fluctuates only slightly between 0 ° C in July and 7–8 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is low 220 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 to 60 mm monthly precipitation in January and February.
Transport network
Santa Bárbara is 334 kilometers by road south 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 , and from there Ruta 21 for a further 96 kilometers in a south-east direction to Atocha. Four kilometers south of Atocha, a dirt road branches off in an easterly direction, the end point of which after 26 kilometers is the city of Santa Bárbara and Cerro Chorolque.
population
The population of the village has declined slightly over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 2,536 | census |
| 2001 | 2,505 | census |
| 2012 | 2 221 | 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
- ^ 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 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 )