Potosí
Potosí is a department in southwestern Bolivia. It comprises 118,218 km2 with 823,517 inhabitants. The capital is the city of Potosí. It is mostly a barren, mountainous region with one large plateau to the west, where the largest salt flat in the world…Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Uyuni
Uyuni is a tourist town in Potosí Department, Bolivia, which serves as the main gateway to Salar de Uyuni, the enormous salt flat nearby.Tupiza
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Tupiza is a city in Potosí Department, Bolivia. It is located at an elevation of about 2850 m.
Destinations
Torotoro National Park
Photo: Gaumut, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Torotoro National Park is a small national park in the Potosí department of Bolivia among the eastern mountain ranges of the South American Andes cordilleras.
Atocha
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Atocha is a town in the Sud Chichas Province in the Potosí Department in Bolivia.
San Pedro de Quemes
San Pedro de Quemes is one of the cantons of the San Pedro de Quemes Municipality, the second municipal section of the Nor Lípez Province in the Potosí Department of Bolivia.San Juan
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San Juan is a town in Bolivia. It is south of the Salar de Uyuni.
Potosí
- Type: State with 902,000 residents
- Description: department of Bolivia
- Neighbors: Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, Jujuy, Oruro and Tarija
- Categories: department of Bolivia and locality
- Location: Altiplano, Bolivia, South America
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Latitude of centre
-20.6667° or 20° 40' southLongitude of centre
-66.6667° or 66° 40' westPopulation
902,000Elevation
3,659 metres (12,005 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 2890584086OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
3907580Wikidata ID
Q238079Potosí Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Potosí
- Arabic: إدارة بوتوسي
- Aymara: Putusi jach'a suyu
- Basque: Potosiko departamendua
- Basque: Potosí
- Basque: Potosí 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
- Danish: Potosí
- Dutch: Potosi
- Dutch: Potosí
- English: Potosi Department
- English: Potosí Department
- Esperanto: Departamento de Potosí
- Esperanto: Potosi
- Esperanto: Potosiio
- Esperanto: Potosí
- 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: Tetãvore Potosí
- Gujarati: પોટોસી વિભાગ
- Hebrew: מחוז פוטוסי
- Hindi: पोतोसी विभाग
- Indonesian: Departemen Potosi
- Indonesian: Departemen Potosí
- Italian: Dipartimento di Potosi
- Italian: Dipartimento di Potosì
- Italian: dipartimento di Potosí
- Japanese: ポトシ県
- Kannada: ಪೋಟೊಸಿ ಇಲಾಖೆ
- Korean: 포토시주
- Ladino: Potosí
- Latvian: Potosi departaments
- Lithuanian: Potosi departamentas
- Macedonian: Потоси
- Malay: Potosi
- Marathi: पोटोसी विभाग
- Min Nan Chinese: Potosí Chiu
- Northern Frisian: Potosí (Department)
- Northern Frisian: Potosí
- Norwegian: Potosí
- Norwegian Bokmål: Potosi
- Norwegian Bokmål: Potosí
- Ossetian: Потоси (департамент)
- Ossetian: Потоси
- Persian: شهرستان پوتوسی
- Polish: Potosí
- Portuguese: Departamento de Potosí
- Portuguese: Potosí
- 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
- Slovenian: Departamento Potosí
- Slovenian: Departma Potosi
- Spanish: Departamento de Potosi
- Spanish: Departamento de Potosí
- Spanish: Potosi
- Spanish: Potosí
- Swahili: Mkoa wa Potosí
- Swedish: Potosí
- Tamil: போடோசி துறை
- Tatar: Потоси
- Telugu: పోటోసి డిపార్ట్మెంట్
- Telugu: పోటోసి విభాగం
- Thai: แคว้นโปโตซี
- Turkish: Potosi Departmanı
- Turkish: Potosí departmanı
- Ukrainian: Потосі
- Urdu: محکمہ پوتوسی
- Urdu: ڈیپارٹمنٹ پوتوسی
- 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
- Dipartimento di Potosí
- Tlālxeliuhcāyōtl Potosí
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