Tatasi
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 View of Tatasi |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 770 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 4065 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0802-0400-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 10 ′ S , 66 ° 9 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Sur Chichas Province | ||
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 Climate diagram Tatasi |
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Tatasi is a town in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Tatasi is the most populous place in the canton of Portugalete and is located in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Atocha in the province of Sur Chichas . The village is located at an altitude of 4065 m in a high mountain basin on the irregularly flowing Río Tatasi , one of the headwaters of the Río Tupiza . Tatasi is framed by mountain ridges that rise to an altitude of 4,460 m. Almost three kilometers west of Tatasi is the almost uninhabited ghost village Portugalete , which was abandoned in the 19th century after the silver mines there was exhausted.
geography
Tatasi is located on the Bolivian Altiplano in the northern foothills of the Andes 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 6 ° C (see Tatasi climate diagram), with a monthly average of just under 2 ° C in June / July and 8 to 9 ° 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
Tatasi lies at a distance of 340 kilometers by road south of Potosí , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Potosí the trunk road Ruta 5 leads in a south-westerly direction 208 kilometers to Uyuni , from there the Ruta 21 for a further 96 kilometers 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, where it reaches Tatasi after 13 kilometers . From there it continues via San Vicente to the provincial capital San Pablo de Lípez .
population
The population of the village has almost halved in the last decade of the 20th century, but has increased again slightly since the turn of the century:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 1,328 | census |
| 2001 | 674 | census |
| 2012 | 770 | 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 March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 file; 11.63 MB).
Web links
- Municipio Atocha - General Maps No. 50802.
- Sud Chichas - detailed map and population data (PDF; 625 kB) (Spanish).
- Department Potosí - Social data of the provinces and municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) (Spanish).