Potosí

Potosí is a department in southwestern . Its area is 118,218 km2 and its population is 856,419. The capital is the city of . It is a mostly barren, mountainous region with one large plateau to the west, where the largest salt flat in the world…
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, at around 4,000 metres, is one of the world's highest large cities. It is located in the Department of . The wealthy history of is reflected in the narrow streets, colonial mansions and the many churches, which make the city a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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is a tourist town in Potosí Department, , which serves as the main gateway to , the enormous salt flat nearby.

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is a city in Potosí Department, . It is located at an elevation of about 2850 m. The population is 25,709. 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 River provides welcome respite from the otherwise arid, thorny surroundings.

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The two border towns Villazón in and La Quiaca in are a pair spreading across the two countries. Most visitors just hurry across the border and on to their next destination, but it's worth stopping for at least a few hours or even a night…

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is a small national park in the Potosí department of among the eastern mountain ranges of the South American Andes cordilleras. It is accessible from the city of .

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or Llallawa is a town in the Potosí Department in . It is the seat of the , the third municipal section of the .

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is a town in the Sud Chichas Province in the Potosí Department in . It is the seat of the and Canton. In 2001 it had 2,033 inhabitants.

is one of the cantons of the , the second municipal section of the in the Potosí Department of .

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is a town in . It is south of the .

Potosí

Latitude of center
-20.6667° or 20° 40′ south
Longitude of center
-66.6667° or 66° 40′ west
Population
861,000
Elevation
3,659 metres (12,005 feet)
Inception
1826
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2890584086
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3907580
Wiki­data ID
Q238079
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Potosí” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ፖቶሲ”
  • Arabic: “إدارة بوتوسي”
  • Aymara: “Putusi jach’a suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Potosi”
  • Basque: “Potosí departamendua”
  • Basque: “Potosí”
  • Basque: “Potosiko departamendua”
  • Belarusian: “Патасі”
  • Bengali: “পোতোসি বিভাগ”
  • Breton: “Departamant Potosí”
  • Bulgarian: “Потоси”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Potosí”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento de Potosí”
  • Chinese: “Potosí Chiu”
  • Chinese: “波托西省”
  • Croatian: “Potosí”
  • Czech: “Departement Potosí”
  • Czech: “Potosí”
  • Danish: “Potosí”
  • Dutch: “Potosi”
  • Dutch: “Potosí”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اداره بوتوسى”
  • Esperanto: “Departamento de Potosí”
  • Esperanto: “Potosi”
  • Esperanto: “Potosí”
  • Esperanto: “Potosiio”
  • Estonian: “Potosí departemang”
  • Finnish: “Potosí”
  • French: “Departement de Potosi”
  • French: “Département de Potosi”
  • French: “Département de Potosí”
  • French: “Potosí”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Potosí”
  • Georgian: “პოტოსის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Departamento Potosí”
  • German: “Potosí”
  • Greek: “Ποτοσί”
  • Guarani: “Potosi Retãvore”
  • Guarani: “Tetãvore Potosí”
  • Gujarati: “પોટોસી વિભાગ”
  • Hausa: “Potosi”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז פוטוסי”
  • Hindi: “पोतोसी विभाग”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Potosi”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Potosí”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento de Potosí”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Potosi”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Potosí”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Potosí”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Potosì”
  • Japanese: “ポトシ県”
  • Javanese: “Potosi”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋಟೊಸಿ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Потоси”
  • Kirghiz: “Потоси”
  • Korean: “포토시주”
  • Ladino: “Potosí”
  • Latvian: “Potosi departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Potosi departamentas”
  • Macedonian: “Потоси”
  • Malay: “Potosi”
  • Maltese: “Dipartiment ta‘ Potosí”
  • Marathi: “पोटोसी विभाग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Potosí Chiu”
  • Minangkabau: “Departemen Potosí”
  • Northern Frisian: “Potosí (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Potosí”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Potosi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Potosí”
  • Norwegian: “Potosí”
  • Oromo: “Potosi”
  • Ossetian: “Потоси (департамент)”
  • Ossetian: “Потоси”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੋਤੋਸੀ”
  • Persian: “شهرستان پوتوسی”
  • Polish: “Potosí”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Potosí”
  • Portuguese: “Potosí”
  • Pushto: “پوتوسي”
  • Quechua: “P’utuqsi suyu”
  • Quechua: “Putuqsi suyu”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Potosí”
  • Romanian: “Potosí”
  • Russian: “Потоси”
  • Scots: “Potosi Depairtment”
  • Scots: “Potosí Depairtment”
  • Serbian: “Потоси”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Potosí (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Potosí”
  • Sinhala: “පොටොසි දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, බොලිවියාව”
  • Sinhala: “පොටොසි දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Slovenian: “Departamento Potosí”
  • Slovenian: “Departma Potosi”
  • Somali: “Potosi”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Potosi”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Potosí”
  • Spanish: “Potosi”
  • Spanish: “Potosí”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Potosí”
  • Swedish: “Potosí”
  • Tajik: “Потоси”
  • Tamil: “போடோசி துறை”
  • Tatar: “Потоси”
  • Telugu: “పోటోసి డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Telugu: “పోటోసి విభాగం”
  • Thai: “แคว้นโปโตซี”
  • Turkish: “Potosi Departmanı”
  • Turkish: “Potosí”
  • Ukrainian: “Потосі”
  • Urdu: “ڈیپارٹمنٹ پوتوسی”
  • Urdu: “محکمہ پوتوسی”
  • Uzbek: “Potosi”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính Potosi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Potosí”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ پوٹوسی”
  • Wu Chinese: “波托西省”
  • Yiddish: “פאטאסי דעפארטמענט”
  • Yue Chinese: “波托西省”
  • “Potosí”
  • “Tlālxeliuhcāyōtl Potosí”

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