Atocha Municipality

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Atocha Municipality
Municipality
Atocha
Flag
Location within Potosí Department
Atocha Municipality Location within Bolivia
Coordinates: 21°6′S 66°2′W / 21.100°S 66.033°W / -21.100; -66.033
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 (BOT)

Atocha Municipality is the second municipal section of the Sud Chichas Province in the Potosí Department in Bolivia. Its seat is Atocha. It is located within the Andes mountain range.

Atocha Municipality was created on September 21, 1963 by Law No. 245^[1] 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:^[2] Atocha, Chorolque, Chorolque Viejo, Portugalete, Chocaya, Guadalupe, San Vicente, Santa Bárbara.

The people are predominantly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent.^[3]

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

Ref: obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo

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

• Kunturillu
• Santa Bárbara (Chorolque)
• Siete Suyos
• Wila Qullu

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