San Pablo De Lípez Municipality
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San Pablo de Lípez Municipality is the first municipal section of the
Sur Lípez Province Sur Lípez or Sud Lípez is a province in the Potosí Department in Bolivia. The seat of the province is San Pablo de Lípez. Location Sur Lípez is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. Also, the southwesternmost point of Bolivia ...
in the
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 ...
in
Bolivia Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...
. Its seat is San Pablo de Lípez.


Geography

The highest mountain of the municipality is
Uturunku Uturuncu is a dormant volcano in the Sur Lípez Province of Bolivia. It is high, has two summit peaks, and consists of a complex of lava domes and lava flows with a total volume estimated to be . It bears traces of a former glaciation, even ...
at . Other mountains are listed below:


Subdivision

The municipality consists of the following cantons: * Quetena Grande - 621 inhabitants (''2001'') * San Antonio de Lípez - 505 inhabitants * San Pablo de Lípez - 1,397 inhabitants


The people

The people are predominantly
indigenous Indigenous may refer to: *Indigenous peoples *Indigenous (ecology) In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often populari ...
citizens of
Quechua Quechua may refer to: *Quechua people, several Indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru *Quechuan languages, an Indigenous South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language ...
descent.obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo/municipal/fichas/ (inactive)


References


External links


San Pablo de Lípez Municipality: population data and map
Municipalities of Potosí Department {{Potosí-geo-stub