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Jach'a Jawira (Uncía)
Jach'a Jawira ( Aymara ''jach'a'' big, great, ''jawira'' river, "great river", Hispanicized spelling ''Jachcha Jahuira'') is a Bolivian river east of Poopó Lake in the Potosí Department, Rafael Bustillo Province, Uncía Municipality Uncía Municipality is the first municipal section of the Rafael Bustillo Province in the Potosí Department in Bolivia. Its seat is Uncía Uncía is a town located in the Potosí Department of Bolivia. It is the capital of the Uncía Municipa .... (still containing Chuqi Uta (now a municipality of its own) as its canton) population data and map See also * Jach'a Jawira (Chuqi Uta)References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aymara Language
Aymara (; also ) is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over one million speakers.The other native American languages with more than one million speakers are Nahuatl, Quechua languages, and Guaraní. Aymara, along with Spanish and Quechua, is an official language in Bolivia and Peru. It is also spoken, to a much lesser extent, by some communities in northern Chile, where it is a recognized minority language. Some linguists have claimed that Aymara is related to its more widely spoken neighbor, Quechua. That claim, however, is disputed. Although there are indeed similarities, like the nearly identical phonologies, the majority position among linguists today is that the similarities are better explained as areal features rising from prolonged cohabitation, rather than natural genealogical changes that would stem from a common protolanguage. Aymara is an agglutinating and, to a cert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolivia
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Potosí Department
Potosí (; Aymara language, Aymara: ''Putusi''; qu, P'utuqsi) is a Departments of Bolivia, department in southwestern Bolivia. It comprises 118,218 km2 with 823,517 inhabitants (2012 census). 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 pan (geology), salt flat in the world, Salar de Uyuni, is located. Cerro Rico, Cerro Potosí was the richest province in the Spanish empire, providing a great percentage of the silver that was Spanish treasure fleet, shipped to Europe. Potosi is also the location of the San Cristóbal mine (Bolivia), San Cristóbal silver, zinc and lead mines, developed by the US-company Apex Silver Mines Limited of Colorado and in November 2008 sold to the Japanese Sumitomo Corporation. Government The chief executive office of Departments of Bolivia, Bolivia departments (since May 2010) is the governor; until then, the office was called the prefect, and until 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Bustillo Province
Rafael Bustillo is a province in the Bolivian Potosí Department. Its name honors the Bolivian diplomat and foreign secretary Rafael Bustillo († 1886). The capital of the province is Uncía with a population of 5,709 in the year 2001, the largest town is Llallagua with 20,065 inhabitants. Location Rafael Bustillo province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It is located between 18° 11' and 18° 45' South and between 66° 11' and 66° 45' West. It borders Oruro Department in the northwest, west and south, Chayanta Province in the southeast, Charcas Province in the east, and Alonso de Ibáñez Province in the northeast. The province extends over 70 km from north to south as well as from east to west. Division The province comprises four municipalities (Spanish) which are further subdivi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uncía Municipality
Uncía Municipality is the first municipal section of the Rafael Bustillo Province in the Potosí Department in Bolivia. Its seat is Uncía Uncía is a town located in the Potosí Department of Bolivia. It is the capital of the Uncía Municipality and Rafael Bustillo Province Rafael Bustillo is a province in the Bolivian Potosí Department. Its name honors the Bolivian diplomat an .... Subdivision The municipality consists of the following cantons: * Uncía * Cala Cala (Qala Qala) Chuqi Uta Canton belonged to the municipality until June 17, 2009, when Chuqi Uta Municipality was created now being the fourth municipal section of the Rafael Bustillo Province. The people The people are predominantly indigenous citizens of Quechua and Aymara descent.obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo/municipal/fichas/ (inactive) See also * Jach'a Jawira (Uncía) References External links Uncía Municipality: population data and map Municipalities of Potosí Department { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poopó Lake
Poopó may refer to: * Poopó Lake, Oruro, Bolivia * Poopó Province, Oruro, Bolivia * Poopó Municipality Poopó Municipality is the first municipal section of the Poopó Province in the Oruro Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Poopó. Geography The municipality lies east of the Desaguadero River where it connects Uru Uru Lake and Poopó Lak ..., Oruro, Bolivia * Poopó Canton, Oruro, Bolivia {{place name disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jach'a Jawira (Chuqi Uta)
Jach'a Jawira ( Aymara ''jach'a'' big, great, ''jawira'' river, "great river", hispanicized spelling ''Jachcha Jahuira'') is a Bolivian river east of Poopó Lake in the Potosí Department, Rafael Bustillo Province, Chuqi Uta Municipality. (still containing Chuqi Uta (now a municipality of its own) as its canton) population data and map See also *Jach'a Jawira (Uncía)
Jach'a Jawira ( Aymara ''jach'a'' big, great, ''jawira'' river, "great river", Hispanicized spelling ''Jachcha Jahuira'') is a Bolivian river east of Poopó Lake in the Potosí Department, Rafael Bustillo Province, Uncía Municipality
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