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Escoriani is a village in the department of Potosí in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location

Escoriani is a railway station in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Atocha in the province Sur chichas. The now almost deserted village is at an altitude of 4056 m on the riverbank of the Rio Guadalupe, one of the headwaters of the Río Tupiza. Escoriani was formerly the site of a silversmith until the deposits were so far exhausted that a further reduction was not worth.

Geography

Escoriani 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 time of day climate.

The mean annual temperature of the region is 11 ° C (see climate chart Atocha ), with a monthly average value of 6 to 7 ° C in June / July and about 13 ° 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 50 mm month precipitation in January.

Traffic network

Escoriani lies at a distance of 327 kilometers of road southwest of Potosí, the capital of the department of the same name.

From Potosí from the unpaved highway Ruta 5 runs in a southwesterly direction 208 km to Uyuni, from where the Ruta 21 about another 96 miles to Atocha. From Atocha from a country road leading in a south-easterly direction along the old railway line 23 km to Escoriani. In Escoriani shares the approach road leading from the north, some of the low vehicle traffic heads southwest to the villages and intact zinc and silver mines in the province Sur Lípez.

Population

The town is almost deserted since the task of molten silver, over the past decade, however, a settlement has taken place again: