Chayanta Province

Chayanta is a province in the northren pairts of the Bolivie Potosí Depairtment. Its caipital is Colquechaca.

Location
Chayanta province is ane o saxteen provinces in the Potosí Depairtment. It is locatit atweesh 18° 23' und 19° 6' Sooth an atween 65° 23' und 66° 19' Wast.

It borders Charcas Province in the north, Rafael Bustillo Province in the northwast, Oruro Depairtment in the wast, Tomás Frías Province in the sooth, Cornelio Saavedra Province in the sootheast, and Chuquisaca Depairtment in the east. The province extends ower 125 km frae east tae wast an 100 km frae north tae sooth. 

 Diveesion 
The province comprises fower municipalities, which are pairtly further subdividit intae cantons.

SectionMunicipalitySeat 1st  Colquechaca Municipality  Colquechaca 2nd  Ravelo Municipality  Ravelo  3rd  Pocoata Municipality  Pocoata  4th  Ocurí Municipality  Ocurí 

Population
The main leid o the province is Quechua, spoken bi 79%, while 33% o the population speak Spaingie. The population increased frae 73,128 inhabitants (1992 census) tae 90,205 (2001 census), an increase o 23.4%. The caipital o the province is Colquechaca.  

97% o the population hae nae access tae electricity, 98% hae nae sanitary facilities. 

74% o the population are employed in agricultur, 1% in minin, 13% in industrie, 12% in general services. 93% o the population are Catholics, 5% Protestants.

The fowk are predominantly indigenous ceetizens o Quechua strynd. obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo/municipal/fichas/ (inactive)  

 Ethnic group Colquechaca Municipality (%) Ravelo Municipality (%) Pocoata Municipality (%) Ocurí Municipality (%)Quechua95.394.489.693.4Aymara0.90.33.00.2Guaraní, Chiquitos, Moxos0.00.10.00.2Nae indigenous 3.85.27.36.1Ither indigenous groups0.00.10.00.1

History
In the late aichteent century the province wis the scene o a rebellion o the Aymara-speakin population led bi Tomás Katari an exacerbatit bi his assassination in Januar 1781. It wis the scene o a peasant rebellion in 1927 an aw.

Literature
Sergio Serulnikov, Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003)
Sergio Serulnikov, Tomás Catari y la producción de justicia (Buenos Aires: CEDES, 1988)
Erick D. Langer, "Andean Rituals of Revolt: The Chayanta Rebellion of 1927," Ethnohistory 37(1990): 227–53
Tristan Platt, Estado boliviano y ayllu andino: tierra y tributo en el norte de Potosi (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1982)

 References 

Population data (Spaingie) 

Category:Provinces o Potosí Depairtment