Tatasi

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

Location in near space

Tatasí is the most populous city in the canton of Portugalete and is located in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Atocha in the province Sur chichas. The village lies at an altitude of 4065 m in a high mountain hollow at the irregularly flowing Río Tatasí, one of the headwaters of the Río Tupiza. Tatasí is framed by mountain ridges which rise to a height of 4,460 m. Almost three kilometers west of Tatasí is the almost uninhabited ghost town Portugalate that has been abandoned in the 19th century after the exhaustion of local silver mines.

Geography

Tatasi 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 average daily temperature fluctuations are stronger than the temperature variations during the year.

The mean annual temperature of the region is about 6 ° C (see climate chart Tatasi ), with a monthly average value of nearly 2 ° C in June / July and 8-9 ° 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.

Traffic network

Tatasí located south of Potosi, the capital of the department of the same name at a distance of 340 kilometers of road.

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 and then leaves the railway line in the south-west, where it reaches after thirteen kilometers Tatasi. From there it continues along San Vicente to the provincial capital San Pablo de Lípez.

Population

The population of the town has almost halved in the last decade of the 20th century, but since the turn of the century calibrates risen:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Atocha 60.1 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.