Tahua Municipality is the second
municipal section of the
Daniel Campos Province in the
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.
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. Its seat is
Tahua Tahua is a Duff Islands archipelago, located in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The estimated terrain elevation above sea level is some 23 metres. The island is inhabited.
History
The artificial island of Tahua alre ...
.
Geography
Tahua Municipality lies in the
Altiplano
The Altiplano (Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla") or Andean Plateau, in west-central South America, is the most extensive high plateau on Earth outside Tibet. The plateau is located at the ...
at the
Uyuni
Uyuni (Aymara, ''uyu'' pen (enclosure), yard, cemetery, ''-ni'' a suffix to indicate ownership, "the one that has got a pen", "the one with a pen") is a city in the southwest of Bolivia.
Uyuni primarily serves as a gateway for tourists visiting t ...
salt flat.
Some of the highest mountains of the municipality are listed below:
* Ch'iyar Qullu
* Jisk'a Wat'a
* Lluqu Lluqu
* Muruq'u Qullu
* Wila Qullu
* Wila Wilani
Subdivision
The municipality consists of the following cantons:
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Ayque
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Cacoma
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Caquena
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Coqueza
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Tahua Tahua is a Duff Islands archipelago, located in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The estimated terrain elevation above sea level is some 23 metres. The island is inhabited.
History
The artificial island of Tahua alre ...
*
Yonza
The people
The people are predominantly
indigenous
Indigenous may refer to:
*Indigenous peoples
*Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention
*Indigenous (band), an American blues-rock band
*Indigenous (horse), a Hong Kong racehorse ...
citizens of
Aymara
Aymara may refer to:
Languages and people
* Aymaran languages, the second most widespread Andean language
** Aymara language, the main language within that family
** Central Aymara, the other surviving branch of the Aymara(n) family, which today ...
descent.
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See also
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Inkawasi Island
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Isla del Pescado
Isla del Pescado, Isla de los Pescadores or Cujiri is a hilly and rocky outcrop of land in the middle of Salar de Uyuni – a Salt pan (geology), salt flat situated in the Daniel Campos Province, Tahua Municipality, Caquena Canton, Bolivia.
The l ...
References
External links
Tahua Municipality: population data and map
Municipalities of Potosí Department
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