Atocha Municipality

The municipality Atocha is a district in the Potosí Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality Atocha is one of two Municipalities of the province Sur chichas and lies in the northern part of the province. It is bordered on the northwest by the province of Nor chichas, in the northwest of the province Antonio Quijarro, on the west by the province of Nor Lípez, and to the south and east by the municipality of Tupiza. It extends to 75 km in east-west direction and 65 km in north-south direction.

The central location of the municipality is the town of Atocha with 2,033 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) on the northern edge of the district.

Geography

The municipality Atocha is located on the Bolivian Altiplano in the northern foothills of the Andean mountain range, the Cordillera de Lípez. The region's climate is arid and has a clear diurnal climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations are stronger than the temperature variations during the year.

The mean annual temperature of the region is 11 ° C (see climate chart Atocha ), with a monthly average value of 6-7 ° C in June / July and 13-14 ° C from November to March. The annual rainfall is low 200 mm, with the months of April through October, virtually rainless. Only from November to March fall precipitation, with a maximum of about 50 mm month precipitation in January.

Population

The population of the municipality of Atocha has declined in the past two decades by about 40 percent:

The municipality had at the last census of 2001, a population density of 4.6 inhabitants / km ², the proportion of the urban population was 48 percent. The proportion of under-15s in the population was 47.1 percent, the life expectancy of newborns was 56 years.

The literacy rate for those over 19 years is 85 percent, and that 95 percent of men and 76 percent in women ( 2001).

96 percent of the population speak Spanish and 70 percent Quechua. 89 percent of the population are Roman Catholic, 7 percent Protestant. (2001)

18 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 89 percent have no sanitary facilities ( 2001).

Policy

Structure

The municipality is divided into seven cantons ( cantones ):

  • Canton Atocha (including the towns Atocha, Telamayu and Santa Bárbara )
  • Canton Chocaya (including the towns Chocaya, Siete Suyos and Animas )
  • Canton Chorolque Viejo
  • Canton of Guadalupe (including the town of Guadalupe )
  • Canton Portugalete (including the towns Portugalate Tatasi )
  • Canton San Vicente (including the town of San Vicente)
  • Canton Tacmari
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