Atocha Municipality

Atocha Municipality
Municipality
Atocha
Flag
Location within Potosí Department
Country	Bolivia
Department	Potosí Department
Province	Sud Chichas Province
Foundation	September 21, 1963
Seat	Atocha
Government
• Mayor	Braulio Flores
Population  (2001)
• Total	9,536
• Ethnicities	Quechua
Time zone	UTC-4 (-4)

Atocha Municipality is the second municipal section of the Sud Chichas Province in the Potosí Department in Bolivia. Its seat is Atocha.

Subdivision

Atocha Municipality was created on September 21 in 1963 by Law No. 245 consisting of the following seven cantons: Chocaya, Portugalete, San Vicente, Santa Bárbara, Tacmari, Guadalupe and Chorolque Viejo.

The National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia INE lists eight divisions of the municipality of Atocha: Atocha, Chorolque, Chorolque Viejo, Portugalete, Chocaya, Guadalupe, San Vicente, Santa Bárbara.

The people

The people are predominantly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent.

Ethnic group	%
Quechua	70.6
Aymara	2.8
Guaraní, Chiquitos, Moxos	0.2
Not indigenous	26.4
Other indigenous groups	0.1

Languages

The languages spoken in the municipality are mainly Spanish and Quechua .

Language	Inhabitants
Quechua	4,910
Aymara	274
Guaraní	11
Another native	1
Spanish	8,580
Foreign	26
Only native	395
Native and Spanish	4,602
Only Spanish	3,979

Ref: obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo

Places of interest

The colonial settlement Atocha Viejo ("Old Atocha") as well as the land relief are a tourist attraction.

• 
  Atocha
• 
  "The sails" (Las velas)
• 
  The egg and the bottle (El huevo y la botella)
• 
  "Lion" (La leona), Chorolque
• 
  "Sleeping Beauty" (La Bella Durmiente)
• 
  "The camel" (El Camello)
• 
  El hielito

See also

• Santa Bárbara (Chorolque)
• Siete Suyos
• Tatasi River

External links

• Atocha Municipality: population data and map (PDF; 625 kB)