Silver and Acanthite - Colquechaca (Aullagas), Chayanta, Potosi, Bolivia

Chayanta is a

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in the northern parts of the

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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 most ...

. Its capital is Colquechaca.

Location

Chayanta province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It is located between 18° 23' and 19° 6'

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and between 65° 23' and 66° 19'

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. It borders

Charcas Province Charcas is a province in the northern parts of the Bolivian Potosí Department. Its capital is San Pedro de Buena Vista (955 inhabitants in 2001).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 lar ...

in the northwest,

Oruro Department Oruro (; Quechua: ''Uru Uru''; Aymara: ''Ururu'') is a department of Bolivia, with an area of . Its capital is the city of Oruro. According to the 2012 census, the Oruro department had a population of 494,178. Provinces of Oruro The departme ...

in the west,

Tomás Frías Province Tomás Frías is a province in the northern parts of the Bolivian Potosí Department. Its capital is Potosí which is also the capital of the department. The province is named after the former president Tomás Frías Ametller. Location Tomás ...

in the south,

Cornelio Saavedra Province Cornelio Saavedra is a province in the north-eastern parts of the Bolivian Potosí Department. The capital of the province is Betanzos with 4,168 inhabitants in the year 2001.Chuquisaca Department Chuquisaca () ( ay, Chuqisaka; qu, Chuqichaka) is a department of Bolivia located in the center south. It borders on the departments of Cochabamba, Tarija, Potosí, and Santa Cruz. The departmental capital is Sucre, which is also the consti ...

in the east. The province extends over 125 km from east to west and 100 km from north to south.

Geography

Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below:

History

In the late eighteenth century the province was the scene of a rebellion of the

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-speaking population led by Tomás Katari and exacerbated by his assassination in January 1781. It was also the scene of a peasant rebellion in 1927.

Division

The province comprises four

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, which are partly further subdivided into

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Population

The main language of the province is

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, spoken by 79%, while 33% of the population speak

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. The population increased from 73,128 inhabitants (1992 census) to 90,205 (2001 census), an increase of 23.4%. The capital of the province is Colquechaca. 97% of the population have no access to electricity, 98% have no sanitary facilities. 74% of the population are employed in agriculture, 1% in mining, 13% in industry, 12% in general services. 93% of the population are Catholics, 5% Protestants. The people are predominantly

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citizens of

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Literature

*Sergio Serulnikov, ''Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes'' (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003) *Sergio Serulnikov, ''Tomás Catari y la producción de justicia'' (Buenos Aires: CEDES, 1988) *Erick D. Langer, "Andean Rituals of Revolt: The Chayanta Rebellion of 1927," ''Ethnohistory'' 37(1990): 227–53 *Tristan Platt, ''Estado boliviano y ayllu andino: tierra y tributo en el norte de Potosi'' (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1982)

References

Population data (Spanish)