Chayanta Province

Chayanta
Province
Ocurí, the seat o the Ocurí Municipality
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Location o the Chayanta Province athin Bolivie
Provinces o the Potosí Depairtment
Coordinates: 18°44′S 65°51′W
Country	Bolivie
Depairtment	Potosí Depairtment
Municipalities	4
Cantons	13
Capital	Colquechaca
Area
• Total	4969 km2 (1,919 sq mi)
Population  (2001)
• Total	90,205
• Density	18.2/km2 (47/sq mi)
• Ethnicities	Quechua
Area code(s)	BO.PO.CY

Siller an acanthite, frae Colquechaca (Aullagas), Chayanta Province, Bolivia. Scale at bottom is ane inch, wi a rule at ane cm.

Chayanta is a province in the northren pairts of the Bolivie Potosí Depairtment. Its caipital is Colquechaca.^{[citation needit]}

Location

Chayanta province is ane o saxteen provinces in the Potosí Depairtment. It is locatit atweesh 18° 23' und 19° 6' Sooth an atween 65° 23' und 66° 19' Wast.^{[citation needit]}

It borders Charcas Province in the north, Rafael Bustillo Province in the northwast, Oruro Depairtment in the wast, Tomás Frías Province in the sooth, Cornelio Saavedra Province in the sootheast, and Chuquisaca Depairtment in the east. The province extends ower 125 km frae east tae wast an 100 km frae north tae sooth.^{[citation needit]}

Diveesion

The province comprises fower municipalities, which are pairtly further subdividit intae cantons.

Section	Municipality	Seat
1st	Colquechaca Municipality	Colquechaca
2nd	Ravelo Municipality	Ravelo
3rd	Pocoata Municipality	Pocoata
4th	Ocurí Municipality	Ocurí

Population

The main leid o the province is Quechua, spoken bi 79%, while 33% o the population speak Spaingie. The population increased frae 73,128 inhabitants (1992 census) tae 90,205 (2001 census), an increase o 23.4%. The caipital o the province is Colquechaca.^{[citation needit]}

97% o the population hae nae access tae electricity, 98% hae nae sanitary facilities.^{[citation needit]}

74% o the population are employed in agricultur, 1% in minin, 13% in industrie, 12% in general services. 93% o the population are Catholics, 5% Protestants.^{[citation needit]}

The fowk are predominantly indigenous ceetizens o Quechua strynd.

Ethnic group	Colquechaca Municipality (%)	Ravelo Municipality (%)	Pocoata Municipality (%)	Ocurí Municipality (%)
Quechua	95.3	94.4	89.6	93.4
Aymara	0.9	0.3	3.0	0.2
Guaraní, Chiquitos, Moxos	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.2
Nae indigenous	3.8	5.2	7.3	6.1
Ither indigenous groups	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.1

History

In the late aichteent century the province wis the scene o a rebellion o the Aymara-speakin population led bi Tomás Katari an exacerbatit bi his assassination in Januar 1781. It wis the scene o a peasant rebellion in 1927 an aw.^{[citation needit]}

Literature

• Sergio Serulnikov, Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003)
• Sergio Serulnikov, Tomás Catari y la producción de justicia (Buenos Aires: CEDES, 1988)
• Erick D. Langer, "Andean Rituals of Revolt: The Chayanta Rebellion of 1927," Ethnohistory 37(1990): 227–53
• Tristan Platt, Estado boliviano y ayllu andino: tierra y tributo en el norte de Potosi (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1982)

References

• Population data (Spaingie) Archived 2009-10-27 at the Wayback Machine