Sud Chichas Province

Sud Chichas / Sur Chichas
Province
On the wey tae "Cañón del Inca" near Tupiza
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Location o the Sud Chichas Province athin Bolivie
Provinces o the Potosí Depairtment
Coordinates: 21°20′S 65°50′W
Kintra	Bolivie
Depairtment	Potosí Depairtment
Caipital	Tupiza
Area
• Total	8158 km2 (3,150 sq mi)
Population  (2001)
• Total	47,873
• Density	5.9/km2 (15/sq mi)
• Ethnicities	Quechua
Area code(s)	BO.PO.SC

Sud Chichas (or: Sur Chichas) is a province in the Bolivie depairtment o Potosí. Its seat is Tupiza.

Location

Sud Chichas province is ane o saxteen provinces in the Potosí Depairtment. It is locatit atween 20° 51' an 21° 50' Sooth an atween 65° 15' an 66° 30' Wast. It borders Nor Chichas Province in the north, Antonio Quijarro Province in the northwast, Nor Lípez Province an Sur Lípez Province in the wast, the Republic o Argentinae an Modesto Omiste Province in the sooth, Tarija Depairtment in the sooth-east, an Chuquisaca Depairtment in the east.

The province extends ower 130 km frae east tae wast an frae north tae sooh.

Diveesion

The province comprises twa municipalities which are further subdividit intae cantons.

Section	Municipality	Seat
1st	Tupiza Municipality	Tupiza
2nd	Atocha Municipality	Atocha

Population

The main leid o the province is Spaingie, spoken bi 96 %, whilk 59 % o the population speak Quechua. The population droppit frae 52,308 inhabitants (1992 census) tae 47,873 (2001 census), a decrease o 8.5 %.

45 % o the population hae nae access tae electricity, 74 % hae nae sanitary facilities. 34 % o the population are employed in agricultur, 11 % in minin, 6 % in industrie, 49 % in general services. 88 % o the population are Catholics, 8 % Protestants.

The fowk are predominantly indigenous ceetizens o Quechua strynd.

Ethnic group	Tupiza Municipality (%)	Atocha Municipality (%)
Quechua	57.0	70.6
Aymara	1.7	2.8
Guaraní, Chiquitos, Moxos	0.2	0.2
Nae indigenous	38.5	26.4
Ither indigenous groups	2.5	0.1

References

• Population data (Spaingie) Archived 2007-02-22 at the Wayback Machine