Potosí Municipality

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

Location in near space

The municipality Potosí is one of four Municipalities in the province of Tomás Frías. It is bordered to the west by the municipality of Yocalla, on the north by the municipality of Tinguipaya, on the east by the province of Cornelio Saavedra, on the south by the province of José María Linares, and to the southwest by the province Antonio Quijarro.

The central location of the municipality is the city of Potosí with 132 966 inhabitants ( 2001) in the western central portion of the county.

Geography

The municipality Potosí is located in the eastern part of the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andean high mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The climate is semiarid and a typical diurnal climate in which the daily temperature fluctuations apparent significant than seasonal fluctuations.

The average annual temperature in the municipality of Potosí is 11.4 ° C (see climate chart Potosí ), the monthly values ​​vary between 8 ° C in June / July and about 13 ° C from November to March. The annual rainfall is only 350 mm, in each case less than 15 mm of precipitation falls in the summer months from April to October and only the time from December to February appreciable monthly rainfall between 60 and 80 mm.

Population

The population of the municipality Potosí has risen in the past two decades by about 40 percent:

The life expectancy of newborns is 63 years, the literacy rate for those over 15 years at 89 percent, and the proportion of the urban population in the municipality is 92 percent. (2001)

Policy

Structure

The municipality is divided into the following four cantons ( cantones ):

• Cantón Chulchucani
• Huari Huari cantón
• Cantón Potosí
• Cantón Tarapaya