Siete Suyos
| Siete Suyos | |||
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 Siete Suyos mining settlement |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1223 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3993 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0802-0500-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 20 ° 57 ′ S , 66 ° 18 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Sur Chichas Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Atocha |
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Siete Suyos is a town in the Potosí department in the southern part of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Siete Suyos is the second largest town in the canton of Chocaya in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Atocha in the province of Sur Chichas . The mining settlement is located at an altitude of 3993 m southwest of Atocha on the right bank of the sporadically flowing Río Chocaya , which flows into the Río Atocha six kilometers below the village . The closest localities are the Animas mining settlement three kilometers further up the valley in the southwest and the Chocaya settlement at the upper end of the Chocaya valley. The mountain ridges around Siete Suyos reach heights of up to almost 4,400 m.
geography
Siete Suyos is located on the Bolivian Altiplano in the northern foothills of the Andean 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 mean daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the temperature fluctuations over the course of the year.
The mean annual temperature of the region is around 9 ° C due to the altitude, around 2 ° C lower than in Atocha (see climate diagram Atocha), with a monthly average of 4 ° C in June / July and 11 ° 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
Siete Suyos is located at a distance of 302 kilometers by road southwest of Potosí , the capital of the department.
From Potosí, the national highway Ruta 5 runs 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-kilometer Ruta 21 , which runs about halfway through Atocha . Coming from Uyuni, at the mouth of the Río Chocaya, eight kilometers before Atocha, a dirt road branches off in a south-westerly direction, which continues via Siete Suyos to Animas and Chocaya.
population
The population of Siete Suyos has more than doubled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 587 | census |
| 2001 | 1 117 | census |
| 2012 | 1 223 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, a large proportion of the regional population belongs to the Quechua ethnic group . At the last census in 2001, 70 percent of the population in the municipality of Atocha spoke 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.
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 )