NXS-GRX-BOL · South America · Regions

Potosí

First-level unit, Bolivia (Plurinational State of): people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-BOL-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO BOL / BOStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
977,927
people (GHSL 2025)
110,129 km²
area
7.6%
of Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
16
units inside
01Map

Inside Potosí

The 16 ADM2 units of Potosí.

FIG 1 · 16 units inside Potosí
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

977,927

7.6% of Bolivia (Plurinational State of).

People · WorldPop 2025

1,355,347

+39% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

110,129 km²

9 people per km².

Code

BO-P

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Potosí in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2022-12-31

916,087

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Poverty headcount · 2023-12-31

16.2%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

182%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

16 units inside Potosí

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

UnitCodePeople (GHSL)People (WorldPop)Area km²Per km²ShareCoast ≤ 10 m
Alonso de Ibáñez–27,12428,2401,441.75192.8%0
Antonio Quijarro–79,411124,07216,933.3658.1%0
Chárcas–40,32843,4353,405.6124.1%0
Chayanta–102,69195,9415,169.072010.5%0
Cornelio Saavedra–48,56569,0113,244.52155%0
Daniel Campos–6,12212,0087,022.4310.6%0
Enrique Baldivieso–1,7014,2212,351.210.2%0
General Bilbao–9,98511,940763.38131%0
José María Linares–45,17456,4624,900.9594.6%0
Modesto Omiste–58,19352,3532,502.47236%0
Nor Chichas–47,78879,4508,117.5364.9%0
Nor Lipez–18,51933,05522,619.4411.9%0
Rafael Bustillo–93,14391,4342,126.63449.5%0
Sur Chichas–63,908127,5798,515.8786.5%0
Sur Lipez–7,89013,22816,226.6300.8%0
Tomás Frías–327,385512,9174,787.756833.5%0
05Exposure

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
60.8 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
1,591.5 H3 cells
Railways
709.8 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
230.5 H3 cells
06Risk

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Potosí publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Bolivia (Plurinational State of).
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08Sources

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BOL ADM1, source: GeoBolivia, Derived from ADM3 layer, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2015
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BOL ADM2, source: GeoBolivia, Derived from ADM3 layer, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2015
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BOL ADM3, source: GeoBolivia, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2015
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Countries
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.
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