Uncía (Potosí)
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 View of Uncía |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 8902 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 57 | ||
| height | 3867 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0201-0103-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 28 ′ S , 66 ° 34 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Rafael Bustillo Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Uncía |
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Uncía is a city in the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Uncía is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Uncía and capital of the province Rafael Bustillo . The city is located at an altitude of 3,867 m above sea level three hundred kilometers south of the Bolivian seat of government La Paz and one hundred kilometers southeast of the nearest major city, Oruro . From Oruro, Uncía can be reached in around an hour and a half on a well-developed road.
geography
Uncía lies at the transition from the Oruro highlands to the Potosí mountains. The city is bordered in the north and west by the high mountain ranges of the Cordillera Central . The vegetation is that of the puna , the climate a typical time of day climate , in which the daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the monthly fluctuations.
The mean annual average temperature is 9 ° C, the monthly averages vary between just under 5 ° C in June / July and 11 ° C from November to March (see climate diagram Uncía). The annual precipitation is 370 mm and falls mainly in the summer months, the arid period with monthly values of a maximum of 10 mm lasts from April to October.
history
Uncía is located in the center of the Bolivian tin mining and is connected to the town of Machacamarca on the Altiplano by a 100 km railway line . It is from here that the tin baron Simón I. Patiño ruled his empire in the first half of the 20th century, and you can still visit Patiño's palace here, from which the king of the tin barons ruled his empire.
Uncía was also the scene of bloody clashes between the military and the miners. In Uncía, for example, after the establishment of the first Bolivian union on May 1, 1923, the subsequent mine workers' strike ended with a bloodbath, in which nine miners were killed and fifty others injured. A recent conflict between miners and Vista Gold Corporation resulted in 11 deaths among miners and smallholders on December 30, 1996.
population
The population of the city has declined significantly since the heyday of tin mining with around 10,000 inhabitants:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 7 729 | census |
| 2001 | 5,709 | census |
| 2012 | 8 902 | census |
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.
Web links
- Relief map Region Uncia 1: 250,000 (JPG; 8.3 MB)
- Municipio Uncía - General Maps No. 50201
- Municipio Uncía - detailed map and population data (PDF; 561 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.23 MB) ( Spanish )
