Santa Bárbara
Santa Bárbara is a small town in the Sud Chichas Province of the Potosí Department in Bolivia. The town lies at an altitude of 4774 m at the foot of Cerro Chorolque, a 5552 m high mountain, rich in ore deposits of tin, bismuth, silver, gold and copper, and exploited by the mine "Chorolque" from different sides.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mach marco, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 2,230 residents
- Description: small town in Bolivia
- Also known as: “Minas Santa Barbara”, “Santa Barbara”, “Santa Barbara de Chorolque”, and “Santa Bárbara, Potosí”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Iskay Rumi.
Iskay Rumi
Peak
Iskay Rumi is a 4,782-metre-high mountain in the Andes of Bolivia. It is located in the Potosí Department, Nor Chichas Province, Cotagaita Municipality. Iskay Rumi lies northwest of the mining town of Santa Bárbara.
Santa Bárbara
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Potosí, Altiplano, Bolivia, South America
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Latitude
-20.92358° or 20° 55′ 25″ southLongitude
-66.05043° or 66° 3′ 2″ westPopulation
2,230Elevation
4,732 metres (15,525 feet)Open location code
57FM3WGX+HROpenStreetMap ID
node 796764804OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3904956Wikidata ID
Q258809
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Swedish—“Santa Bárbara” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Santa Bárbara”
- Cebuano: “Santa Bárbara”
- Chinese: “圣芭芭拉”
- Chinese: “聖芭芭拉”
- Dutch: “Santa Bárbara”
- French: “Santa Bárbara”
- German: “Santa Bárbara”
- Indonesian: “Santa Bárbara, Potosí”
- Indonesian: “Santa Bárbara”
- Quechua: “Santa Bárbara”
- Spanish: “Chorolque”
- Spanish: “Santa Barbara”
- Spanish: “Santa Bárbara”
- Swedish: “Santa Bárbara, Bolivia”
- Swedish: “Santa Bárbara”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Santa Bárbara”. Photo: Mach marco, CC BY-SA 4.0.