San Pedro de Quemes () is the second
municipal section of the
Nor Lípez Province
Nor Lípez is a province in the Bolivian department of Potosí. Its seat is Colcha "K", also called Villa Martín. The majority of the area of the province was titled as the Nor Lípez Native Community Land on 19 April 2011. One of the largest min ...
in the
Potosí Department
Potosí (; Southern Quechua, Quechua: ''P'utuqsi''; Aymara language, Aymara: ''Putusi'') is a Departments of Bolivia, department in southwestern Bolivia. Its area is 118,218 km2 and its population is 856,419 (2024 census). The capital is the ...
in
Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...
. Its seat is
San Pedro de Quemes.
Geography
The municipality lies at the
Uyuni
Uyuni ( Aymara, ''uyu'' pen (enclosure), yard, cemetery, ''-ni'' a suffix to indicate ownership, "the one that has got a pen", "the one with a pen") is a city in the southwest of Bolivia.
Uyuni primarily serves as a gateway for tourists visiting ...
salt flat.
Some of the highest mountains of the municipality are listed below:
Many of the mountains and volcanoes are a natural border to Chile.
Subdivision
The municipality consists of the following cantons:
National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia
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* Cana - 44 inhabitants (''2001'')
* Chiguana - 10 inhabitants
* Pajancha - 52 inhabitants
* Pelcoya - 135 inhabitants
* San Pedro de Quemes- 574 inhabitants
The people
The people are mainly not indigenous
Indigenous may refer to:
*Indigenous peoples
*Indigenous (ecology)
In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often populari ...
and 45,0% are citizens of Quechua
Quechua may refer to:
*Quechua people, several Indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru
*Quechuan languages, an Indigenous South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language ...
descent.[obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo/municipal/fichas/ (inactive)]
See also
* Ch'iyar Quta
References
External links
San Pedro de Quemes Municipality: population data and map
{{Potosí Department
Municipalities of Potosí Department