Tupiza

Tupiza is a town in the Potosí Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Tupiza is a central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Tupiza and capital of the province Sur chichas. The city is located in the canton of Tupiza at an altitude of 2965 m in the valley of the Río Tupiza, one of the headwaters of the Río Pilcomayo.

Geography

Tupiza in the southern part of the barren plateau of the Bolivian Altiplano. The climate is characterized because of the internal situation in cool, dry and by a typical diurnal climate, in which the temperature fluctuations between day and night are generally significantly greater than the seasonal variation.

The average annual temperature is 13 ° C (see climate chart Tupiza ) and varies only slightly between 8 ° C in June / July and 16 ° C from December to February. The annual rainfall is about 300 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to October month precipitation less than 10 mm, and a humidity from December to February with an 60-80 mm month precipitation.

Traffic network

Tupiza is located at a distance of 261 kilometers of road south of Potosi, capital of the department.

From Tupiza in a northerly direction from the unpaved Ruta 14 highway leads through Cotagaita and Vitichi to Potosí.

From Tupiza from south along Ruta 14 via Yuruma to 92 km distant city Villazón on the border with Argentina.

From Tupiza from the northwest leads the Ruta 21, which leads over Atocha in the 197 km distant at the same Uyuni Salar de Uyuni.

Population

The population of the city has increased dramatically in the past three and a half decades to double, with the main emphasis of the increase has lain in the 1980s:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Tupiza 49.7 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.

Economy

The region's economy is based on tourism and on the mining industry. The former division recorded in recent years, rapid growth.

Tupiza is scenically very attractive in the midst of multi-colored mountains (often flowed like structured, red-colored rock pillars in narrow canyons ), which is why it is nicknamed La Joya Bella de Bolivia ( "the beautiful jewel of Bolivia "). Due to the poor accessibility of tourism is still little developed in the city.

The city is repeatedly visited by Americans, because in this city, the famous U.S. outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid long stayed a considerable time and provided by the Bolivian military in 1908 after a robbery at the nearby San Vicente and the arrest were shot.