Ángel Sandoval Province
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Country | Bolivia |
Department | Santa Cruz |
Seat | San Matías |
surface | 32,030 km² |
Residents | 14,415 (2012) |
density | 0.5 inhabitants per km² |
ISO 3166-2 | BO-S |
Coordinates: 16 ° 55 ′ S , 58 ° 18 ′ W
Ángel Sandoval is a province in the eastern part of the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia . The province is named in honor of the Bolivian legal scholar, judicial officer and writer Ángel Sandoval .
location
The province is one of fifteen provinces in the Santa Cruz Department. It borders the Republic of Brazil to the east and north , the province of José Miguel de Velasco to the northwest , the province of Chiquitos to the southwest , and the province of Germán Busch to the southeast . It extends between 16 ° 16 'and 18 ° 0' south latitude and 57 ° 37 'and 59 ° 30' west longitude, its east-west extent is 100 to 180 kilometers, its north-south extent 210 kilometers. The capital of the province is San Matías with 6,267 inhabitants ( 2012 census ).
population
The population of Ángel Sandoval province has increased by more than a third in the past two decades:
- 1992 : 10,695 inhabitants ( census )
- 2001 : 13,073 inhabitants (census)
- 2012 : 14,415 inhabitants (census)
structure
The province of Ángel Sandoval consists of only one municipality , San Matías , which is divided into the following four cantons :
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2001
- ↑ GEOHive according to: Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2013
Web links
- Santa Cruz Department - Social data (PDF 5.12 MB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio San Matías - detailed map and population data (PDF; 2.26 MB) ( Spanish )