Ángel Sandoval Province

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Ángel Sandoval Province
location
Basic data
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

  1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
  2. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2001
  3. ↑ GEOHive according to: Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2013

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