Abuná Province

Abuná Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Pando
Seat	Santa Rosa del Abuná
surface	9667 km²
Residents	4049 (2012)
density	0.4 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-N
Río Abuná

Coordinates: 10 ° 40 ′  S , 67 ° 0 ′  W

Abuná is a province in the northern central part of the Pando department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia . The province is named after the river Río Abuná , the border river to the neighboring country Brazil.

location

The province is one of five provinces in the Pando department. It borders the Republic of Brazil to the north, the Nicolás Suárez Province to the northwest and west, the Manuripi Province to the south , and the Federico Román Province to the east .

It extends between 9 ° 53 'and 11 ° 06' south latitude and 66 ° 27 'and 67 ° 42' west longitude, its length from east to west is 350 km, its latitude from north to south between 120 and 250 kilometers.

population

The population of the province of Abuná has increased by about half in the past two decades:

• 1992 : 2,652 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 2,996 inhabitants ( census )
• 2012 : 4,049 inhabitants (census)

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

The literacy rate in the province is 47.4 percent. ( 2001 )

52.3 percent of the population speak Spanish , 2.8 percent Aymara , 2.0 percent Quechua , and 52.8 percent other languages. ( 1992 ) 87.6 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 83.6 percent live without sanitary facilities . ( 1992 ) 83.5 percent of the population are Catholic , 15.4 percent are Protestant . ( 1992 )

structure

The province of Abuná was divided into the following two municipalities in the 2012 census :

• Municipio Santa Rosa del Abuná (4,440 km²) in the western part of the province - 2,395 inhabitants - 0.7 inhabitants / km²
• Municipio Ingavi (Humaitá) (5,227 km²) in the eastern part of the province - 1,654 inhabitants - 0.3 inhabitants / km²

Localities in the province of Abuná

• Municipio Santa Rosa del Abuná
  • Santa Rosa del Abuná 232 pop.

• Municipio Ingavi
  • Humaitá 554 pop - Ingavi 386 pop

Individual evidence

1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
2. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2001
3. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 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. 

Web links

• Departamento Pando - Social data of the provinces (PDF; 2.49 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Santa Rosa del Abuná - detailed map and population data (PDF; 610 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Ingavi - detailed map and population data (PDF) ( Spanish )