Chocaya Canton
The Canton Chocaya is a municipality in the department of Potosí in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The Canton ( bolivian: cantón ) Chocaya is one of nine cantons in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Atocha in the province Sur chichas. It is bordered on the north by the province of Nor chichas, in the northwest of the province Antonio Quijarro, on the west by the province of Nor Lípez, in the south and south-east to the Canton Tacmari, and on the east by the Canton of Atocha.
Central place of the canton is Chocaya (more precisely: Gran Chocaya ) with 79 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) in the central part of the county, the larger settlements are the two mining settlements Siete Suyos with 1,117 inhabitants and Animas with 1,025 residents northeast of Gran Chocaya. The average height of the canton is 4200 m, the mountain peaks - especially in the eastern part of the canton - reach heights up to 4,500 m.
Geography
The Canton Chocaya located on the Bolivian Altiplano in the northern foothills of the Andean mountain range of the Cordillera de Lípez, about 90 kilometers southeast of the salt lake Salar de Uyuni. The region's climate is arid and has a clear diurnal climate in which the average daily temperature fluctuations are stronger than the temperature variations during the year.
The mean annual temperature of the region is about 7 ° C due to the altitude lower by at least 4 ° C than in neighboring Atocha (see climate chart Atocha ), with a monthly average of 2 ° C in June / July and 9 ° 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 in the canton has risen by more than half in the last decade of the past century:
The population density of the municipality of Atocha at the 2001 census was 4.6 inhabitants / km ², the life expectancy of newborns was 56 years.
The literacy rate in the over 19 -year-old in the municipality was 85 percent, and that 95 percent of men and 86 percent in women. (2001)
Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Atocha 70 % of the population speak the Quechua language.
Structure
The Cantón Chocaya is divided into the following four Subkantone ( vicecantones ):
- Vicecantón Animas - 1 city - 1,025 inhabitants ( 2001)
- Vicecantón Gran Chocaya - 6 villages - 100 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Siete Suyos - 1 city - 1,117 inhabitants
- Vicecantón Santa Ana - 1 city - 11 inhabitants