Tupiza is a city in

Potosí Department Potosí (; Southern Quechua, Quechua: ''P'utuqsi''; Aymara language, Aymara: ''Putusi'') is a Departments of Bolivia, department in southwestern Bolivia. Its area is 118,218 km2 and its population is 856,419 (2024 census). The capital is the ...

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. It is located at an elevation of about 2850 m. The population is 25,709 (2012 estimate). Tupiza and its environs are characterized by dramatic red escarpments which jut ruggedly skyward from the coarse, gray terrain; green agricultural land adjacent to the nearby Tupiza River provides welcome respite from the otherwise arid, thorny surroundings. The area ''quebradas'' are susceptible to

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runoff from sudden cloudbursts. Plaza principal de Tupiza

Tupiza is the capital of the Sud Chichas Province within the

. It is accessible via bus from Villazón to the south (and thereby both

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and

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) and

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to the north, as well as via the north-south train which served the mining settlements and runs the same route. From Tupiza, various towns in the local mining districts are accessible, as is the

Salar de Uyuni Salar de Uyuni (or "Salar de Tunupa") is the world's largest salt flat, or playa, at in area. It is in the Daniel Campos Province in Potosí in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes at an elevation of above sea level. The Salar wa ...

History

Legend has it that

Butch Cassidy Robert LeRoy Parker (April 13, 1866 – November 7, 1908), better known as Butch Cassidy, was an American train robbery, train and bank robbery, bank robber and the leader of a gang of criminal outlaws known as the "Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, ...

and

the Sundance Kid Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (1867 – November 7, 1908), better known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch in the American Old West. He likely met Butch Cassidy (real name Robert LeRoy Parker) during a hunting ...

met their end at the hands of the Bolivian army near Tupiza, concluding their notorious string of bank robbery raids. Various local outfitters provide horseback or jeep tours to the rumored site.

Media

'' Bandera Roja'' newspaper was founded in 1947.Torrico Landa, Gustavo, and Cristóbal Kolkichiuma P'ankara.
La imprenta y el periodismo en Bolivia
'. La Paz: Fondo Ed. del los Diputados, 2004. p. 272

Climate

References

External links

* Tupiza City, Nuestrapiza(Spanis

* Tupiza profile (Englis

* Tupiza pics, additional materials (Spanis

Populated places in Potosí Department {{Potosí-geo-stub it:Tupiza