Tahua Municipality

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Tahua Municipality
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The village of Coquesa and Salar de Uyuni in Tahua Municipality
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Location within Potosí Department
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Tahua Municipality
Location within Bolivia
Coordinates: 20°18′S67°24′W / 20.300°S 67.400°W / -20.300; -67.400 Coordinates: 20°18′S67°24′W / 20.300°S 67.400°W / -20.300; -67.400
CountryFlag of Bolivia.svg  Bolivia
Department Potosí Department
Province Daniel Campos Province
Seat Tahua
Area
 • Total 1,263 sq mi (3,272 km2)
Elevation 12,100 ft (3,700 m)
Population (2001)
 • Total 2,166
 • Ethnicities Aymara
Time zone -4 (UTC-4)

Tahua Municipality is the second municipal section of the Daniel Campos Province in the Potosí Department in Bolivia. Its seat is Tahua.

Municipalities of Bolivia administrative division of Bolivia

Municipalities in Bolivia are administrative divisions of the entire national territory governed by local elections. Municipalities are the third level of administrative divisions, below departments and provinces. Some of the provinces consist of only one municipality. In these cases the municipalities are identical to the provinces they belong to.

Daniel Campos Province Province in Potosí Department, Bolivia

Daniel Campos is a province in the north-western parts of the Bolivian Potosí Department. It is named after the poet Daniel Campos who originated from this area. The capital of the province is Llica.

Potosí Department Place in Potosí, Bolivia

Potosí is a department in southwestern Bolivia. It comprises 118,218 km² with 823,517 inhabitants. The capital is the city of Potosí. It is mostly a barren, mountainous region with one large plateau to the west, where the largest salt flat in the world, Salar de Uyuni, is located.

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Geography

Tahua Municipality lies in the Altiplano at the Uyuni salt flat.

Altiplano plateau

The Altiplano, Collao, Andean Plateau or Bolivian Plateau, in west-central South America, is the area where the Andes are the widest. It is the most extensive area of high plateau on Earth outside Tibet. The bulk of the Altiplano lies in Bolivia, but its northern parts lie in Peru, and its southern parts lie in Chile and Argentina.

Salar de Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia

Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat, at 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi). It is in the Daniel Campos Province in Potosí in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes and is at an elevation of 3,656 meters (11,995 ft) above sea level.

Some of the highest mountains of the municipality are listed below: [1]

Subdivision

The municipality consists of the following cantons:

The people

The people are predominantly indigenous citizens of Aymara descent. [2]

Indigenous peoples of the Americas Pre-Columbian inhabitants of North, Central, and South America and their descendants

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the Pre-Columbian peoples of North, Central and South America and their descendants.

Aymara people ethnic group

The Aymara or Aimara people are an indigenous nation in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America; about 1 million live in Bolivia, Peru and Chile. Their ancestors lived in the region for many centuries before becoming a subject people of the Inca in the late 15th or early 16th century, and later of the Spanish in the 16th century. With the Spanish American Wars of Independence (1810–25), the Aymaras became subjects of the new nations of Bolivia and Peru. After the War of the Pacific (1879–83), Chile acquired territory occupied by the Aymaras.

Ethnic group%
Quechua 6.0
Aymara 90.5
Guaraní, Chiquitos, Moxos 0.1
Not indigenous 3.3
Other indigenous groups0.0

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References

  1. ↑ "Tahua". INE, Bolivia. Retrieved October 16, 2015.
  2. ↑ obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo/municipal/fichas/ (inactive)


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