Beni Department

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Beni Department
Symbols
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Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Capital	Trinidad
surface	213,564 km²
Residents	421,196 (2012 census)
density	2 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BOB
Savannah in Beni

Coordinates: 14 °  S , 65 °  W

The Beni department is located in northeastern Bolivia and borders on Brazil . To the northwest lies the Pando Department , La Paz to the west, Cochabamba to the south and Santa Cruz to the southeast . The department extends in the flat lowlands of the Amazon basin over 213,654 km² (roughly the size of Great Britain ) and has 425,780 inhabitants (according to the 2012 census). The capital is Trinidad . Other cities are Rurrenabaque , Riberalta and Guayaramerín .

The climate is generally tropical, warm and humid. During winter (June / July), however, strong southerly winds, so-called surazos, which originate in Patagonia or the Antarctic, can occasionally lead to drastic temperature drops. Beni is rich in water, with numerous lakes and many rivers, and the vegetation consists mainly of tropical rainforest and wet savannah . In January 2014, the state was affected by heavy rainfall (see Extreme rainfall in Bolivia in January 2014 ). The main industries are agriculture, forestry and livestock.

There are significant elevations only in the very west with a few modest foothills of the Voranden . The rest is mostly below 200 m (above sea level).

population

The population of the department has increased about six times over the past six decades:

year	Residents	source
1950	71 636	census
1976	168 367	census
1992	276 174	census
2001	362 521	census
2012	421 196	census

Of the 362,521 residents of Beni Department at the time of the 2001 census, 249,152 lived in urban areas and 113,369 in rural areas. 32.75 percent of the population over 15 years of age (27.79 percent in urban and 44.65 percent in rural areas) counted themselves to the members of Indian peoples. According to the 2001 census, 97.41 percent of residents over 6 years of age speak Spanish (99.00 percent in urban and 93.73 percent in rural areas).

Division by provinces

Beni is divided into 8 provinces:

province	surface	Population 2001 (census)	Inhabitants 2005 (update)
Province of Cercado	12,276 km²	82,653	92,553
Iténez Province	36,576 km²	18,878	20,086
Ballivián Province	40,444 km²	68.174	79,318
Province of Mamoré	18,076 km²	12,397	13,534
Marbán Province	15,126 km²	14,454	15,658
Moxos Province	33,316 km²	21,643	23,608
Province of Vaca Díez	22,434 km²	116,421	132,974
Yacuma Province	34,686 km²	27.901	29,251

Biggest cities

city	Population 2001 (census)	Population 2012 (census)
Trinidad	75,540	101,454
Riberalta	64,511	78,754
Guayaramerín	33,095	35,764
San Borja	16,273	17,520
Rurrenabaque	8,460	13,446
Santa Ana	12,877	12,178
San Ignacio de Moxos	8,893	10,054

politics

Overall result of the regional elections on April 4, 2010 in the Beni department:

electoral legitimate		electoral participation	valid votes		PRIMERO	MAS-IPSP	MNR-PUEBLO	CA	NACER
189,436		164.392	150,644		64,055	60,477	18,269	5,949	1,894
		86.8%	91.6%		42.5%	40.1%	12.1%	3.9%	1.3%

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 196 kB)  
4. ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010

Web links

Commons : Departamento Beni  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information about the department on the website of the Bolivian Embassy in Berlin
• BoliviaBeni.com (Spanish)
• Information about the Beni high culture, the Earthmover