Chuquisaca Department

Chuquisaca
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Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Capital	Sucre
surface	51,524 km²
Residents	576,153 (2012 census)
density	11 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-H
Provinces

Coordinates: 20 ° 0 ′  S , 64 ° 25 ′  W

Laguna de Culpina

Chuquisaca is a department in the southern part of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

It borders in the north with the department of Cochabamba , in the west with the department Potosí , in the south with the department Tarija , in the far east with the Republic of Paraguay , and in the northeast with the department Santa Cruz .

geography

The Departamento Chuquisaca stretches from the Andes chain of the Cordillera Central in the northwestern part over the north-south running upstream Voranden chains to the lowland region of the Gran Chaco in the east and has an area of ​​51,524 km².

The mountain regions in the west in detail are:

• the Cordillera Sombreros o Mandinga
• the Cordillera de Tajsara o Tarachaca
• the Cordillera Mochara
• the Cordillera de Lique

The climate in the high valleys in the west and in the middle is temperate, in the eastern lowlands it is tropical hot. Rivers north of the capital Sucre, such as B. the Río Grande flow into the Amazon basin . Southern rivers such as the Río Pilcomayo flow into the Paraná Basin . A watershed line therefore runs through the department .

population

The population of the Department of Chuquisaca has more than doubled over the past sixty years, with the dynamism of population growth weakening significantly in the past decade:

year	Residents	source
1950	260 479	census
1976	358 516	census
1992	453 756	census
2001	531 522	census
2012	576 153	census

Provinces

The Chuquisaca department is divided into 10 provinces:

No.	province	surface	2001 residents	Residents 2012	Central city
01-01	Oropeza Province	3,943 km²	241.376	286.140	Sucre
01-02	Azurduy Province	4,185 km²	26,515	24,855	Azurduy
01-03	Jaime Zudáñez Province	3,738 km²	33,482	39.009	Zudáñez
01-04	Tomina Province	3,947 km²	37,482	35.192	Padilla
01-05	Hernando Siles Province	5,473 km²	36,511	32,398	Monteagudo
01-06	Yamparáez Province	1,472 km²	29,567	26,577	Tarabuco
01-07	Nor Cinti Province	7,983 km²	9,512	76,477	Camargo
01-08	Belisario Boeto Province	2,000 km²	12,277	11,159	Villa Serrano
01-09	Sud Cinti Province	5,484 km²	24,321	25.207	Camataqui
01-10	Luis Calvo Province	13,299 km²	20,479	19,139	Muyupampa

Biggest places

Almost half of the population of the Chuquisaca department lives in Sucre , the capital of the department that is also the formal capital of Bolivia.

Besides the provincial capitals, there are only three other cities with more than 2,000 inhabitants: Presto , Culpina and Candua .

city	Population 2001 (census)	Population 2012 (census)
Sucre	194,888	237,480
Monteagudo	7,258	9,135
Camargo	4,459	5,173

politics

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

electoral legitimate		electoral participation	valid votes		MAS-IPSP	CST	LIDER	MSM	F-19
272,519		236.261	203,856		109,270	72,314	8,752	8,044	5,476
		86.7%	86.3%		53.6%	35.5%	4.3%	3.9%	2.7%

Web links

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

• Information about the department on the website of the Bolivian Embassy in Berlin
• Bolivia en la red - Basic data on the Chuquisaca Department (Spanish)
• INE (PDF; 504 kB) Data from the National Statistics Office (Spanish)

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. ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010