Potosí Depairtment

Depairtment o Potosí
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Location athin Bolivia
Coordinates: 20°40′0″S 66°40′0″W
Kintra	Bolivie
Caipital	Potosí
Govrenment
• Prefect	Mario Virreira
Area
• Total	118218 km2 (45,644 sq mi)
Population  (2001)
• Total	709,013
• Density	6.0/km2 (16/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-4 (BOT)
HDI (2004)	-

Potosí Depairtment is a depairtment in soothwastren Bolivie. It comprises 118,218 km² wi 709,013 indwallers (2001 census). The caipital is the ceety o Potosí. It is maistly a barren, muntainous region wi ane muckle plateau tae the wast, whaur the mucklest salt flat in the warld, Salar de Uyuni, is locatit.

Potosí wis the richest province in the Spaingie Empire, providin a great percentage o the siller that wis shippit tae Europe.

It is the location o the San Cristóbal siller, zinc an lead mines an aw, developit bi the US-company Apex Siller Mines Leemitit o Colorado an in November 2008 sauld tae the Japanese Sumitomo Corporation.

Provinces o Potosi Depairtment

The depairtment is dividit intae 16 provinces which are further supbdividit intae 40 municipalities (municipios) an 219 cantons (cantónes).

Province	Caipital	km²	Inhabitants
Alonso de Ibáñez	Sacaca	2.170	29.821
Antonio Quijarro	Uyuni	14.890	37.431
Bernardino Bilbao	Arampampa	640	10.850
Charcas	San Pedro de Buena Vista	2.964	41.651
Chayanta	Colquechaca	7.026	98.946
Cornelio Saavedra	Betanzos	2.375	61.398
Daniel Campos	Llica	12.106	5.270
Enrique Baldivieso	San Agustín	2.254	1.827
José María Linares	Puna	5.136	50.817
Modesto Omiste	Villazón	2.260	38.364
Nor Chichas	Cotagaita	8.979	32.946
Nor Lípez	Colcha "K"	20.892	11.594
Rafael Bustillo	Uncía	2.235	75.599
Sud Chichas	Tupiza	8.516	47.005
Sud Lípez	San Pablo de Lípez	22.355	5.284
Tomás Frías	Potosí	3.420	189.978

Leids

The leids spoken in the depairtment are mainly Quechua, Spaingie an Aymara. The follaein table shows the nummer o those belangin tae the recognizit group o speakers.

Leid	Depairtment	Bolivie
Quechua	514,421	2,281,198
Aymara	57,738	1,525,321
Guaraní	374	62,575
Anither native	356	49,432
Spaingie	438,204	6,821,626
Foreign	3,771	250,754
Anerlie native	226,967	960,491
Native an Spaingie	301,280	2,739,407
Spaingie an foreign	136,980	4,115,751

Places o interest

• Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna Naitional Reserve
• Torotoro Naitional Pairk
• Laguna Colorada
• Laguna Verde
• Laguna Blanca
• Salar de Uyuni
• Potosí
• Uyuni

Notable fowk

• Manuel Ascencio Padilla, namesake o the toun o Padilla, Bolivie

See an aw

• Provinces o Bolivie

Freemit airtins

• Potosi Travel Guide Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
• Weather in Potosi Archived 2012-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
• Bolivie Muisic an Wab Varieties Archived 2006-08-21 at the Wayback Machine