Province of Ñuflo de Chavez

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Province of Ñuflo de Chavez
location
Basic data
Country Bolivia
Department Santa Cruz
Seat Concepción
surface 52,043 km²
Residents 116,545 (2012)
density 2.2 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 BO-S
Jesuit Church of Concepción
Jesuit Church of Concepción

Coordinates: 16 ° 0 ′  S , 62 ° 0 ′  W

Ñuflo de Chávez is a province in the northern central part of the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia . The province bears its name in honor of the conquistador Ñuflo de Chávez (1518–1556).

location

The province is one of fifteen provinces in the Santa Cruz Department. It borders in the north with the Beni department , in the north-west with the province of Guarayos , in the south-west with the province Obispo Santistevan and the province Ignacio Warnes , in the south with the province Andrés Ibáñez and the province Chiquitos , and in the east with the province José Miguel de Velasco .

It extends between 13 ° 45 'and 17 ° 30' south latitude and 61 ° 30 'and 63 ° 25' west longitude, its longitude from north to south is 520 kilometers, its latitude from east to west up to 250 kilometers, and it has a size of 52,043 square kilometers.

population

The population of the province of Ñuflo de Chávez has almost doubled over the past two decades:

  • 1992 : 61,008 inhabitants ( census )
  • 2001 : 93,997 inhabitants (census)
  • 2012 : 116,545 inhabitants (census)

48.3 percent of the population are younger than 15 years. ( 2001 )

The literacy rate in the province is 72.6 percent.

91.6 percent of the population speak Spanish , 30.1 percent Quechua , 2.0 percent Aymara and 1.2 percent Guaraní (1992) .

87.3 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 50.4 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992) .

79.5 percent of the population are Catholic , 17.2 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

The province of Ñuflo de Chávez was divided into the following six districts in 2012 ( Bolivian : Municipios ):

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
  4. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2012

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