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 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: Atocha, Chorolque, Chorolque Viejo, Portugalete, Chocaya, Guadalupe, San Vicente, Santa Bárbara.

The people are predominantly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent.

Ethnic group	%
Quechua	70.6
Aymara	2.8
Guaraní, Chiquitos, Moxos	0.2
Not indigenous	26.4
Other indigenous groups	0.1

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

Language	Inhabitants
Quechua	4,910
Aymara	274
Guaraní	11
Another native	1
Spanish	8,580
Foreign	26
Only native	395
Native and Spanish	4,602
Only Spanish	3,979

Ref: obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo

The colonial settlement Atocha Viejo ("Old Atocha") as well as the land relief are a tourist attraction.

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  Atocha
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  "The sails" (Las velas)
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  The egg and the bottle (El huevo y la botella)
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  "Lion" (La leona), Chorolque
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  "Sleeping Beauty" (La Bella Durmiente)
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  "The camel" (El Camello)
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  El hielito

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

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