Potosí Depairtment

Potosí Depairtment is a depairtment in soothwastren Bolivie. It comprises 118,218 km² wi 709,013 indwallers (2001 census). The caipital is the ceety o Potosí. 
It is maistly a barren, muntainous region wi ane muckle plateau tae the wast, whaur the mucklest salt flat in the warld, Salar de Uyuni, is locatit.

Potosí wis the richest province in the Spaingie Empire, providin a great percentage o the siller that wis shippit tae Europe.

It is the location o the San Cristóbal siller, zinc an lead mines an aw, developit bi the US-company Apex Siller Mines Leemitit o Colorado an in November 2008 sauld tae the Japanese Sumitomo Corporation.

 Provinces o Potosi Depairtment 

The depairtment is dividit intae 16 provinces which are further supbdividit intae 40 municipalities www.bolivia.com (Inglis) (municipios) an 219 cantons (cantónes).

ProvinceCaipitalkm²Inhabitantscenter|220pxAlonso de Ibáñez Sacaca2.17029.821	Antonio QuijarroUyuni14.89037.431Bernardino BilbaoArampampa64010.850CharcasSan Pedro de Buena Vista2.96441.651ChayantaColquechaca7.02698.946Cornelio SaavedraBetanzos2.37561.398Daniel CamposLlica12.1065.270Enrique BaldiviesoSan Agustín2.2541.827José María LinaresPuna5.13650.817Modesto OmisteVillazón2.26038.364Nor ChichasCotagaita8.97932.946Nor LípezColcha "K"20.89211.594Rafael BustilloUncía2.23575.599Sud ChichasTupiza8.51647.005Sud LípezSan Pablo de Lípez22.3555.284Tomás FríasPotosí3.420189.978

 Leids 
The leids spoken in the depairtment are mainly Quechua, Spaingie an Aymara. The follaein table shows the nummer o those belangin tae the recognizit group o speakers.obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo  (Spanish)

 Leid Depairtment BolivieQuechua514,4212,281,198Aymara57,7381,525,321Guaraní37462,575Anither native 35649,432Spaingie 438,2046,821,626Foreign3,771250,754Anerlie native226,967960,491Native an Spaingie301,2802,739,407Spaingie an foreign136,9804,115,751

 Places o interest 
 Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna Naitional Reserve
 Torotoro Naitional Pairk
 Laguna Colorada 
 Laguna Verde
 Laguna Blanca
 Salar de Uyuni
 Potosí
 Uyuni
Notable fowk
 Manuel Ascencio Padilla, namesake o the toun o Padilla, Bolivie

 See an aw 
 Provinces o Bolivie

References

 Freemit airtins 

 Potosi Travel Guide 
 Weather in Potosi 
 Bolivie Muisic an Wab Varieties 


Category:Depairtments o Bolivie