Alonso de Ibáñez province

Alonso de Ibáñez province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Potosí
Seat	Sacaca
surface	2170 km²
Residents	27,970 (2012)
density	13 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-P
Daybreak in the Municipio Sacaca

Coordinates: 18 ° 8 ′  S , 66 ° 29 ′  W

Alonso de Ibáñez is a province in the northern part of the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The province of Alonso de Ibáñez is one of sixteen provinces in the Department of Potosí. It extends between 17 ° 56 'and 18 ° 20' south latitude and between 66 ° 10 'and 66 ° 48' west longitude and covers an area of ​​2,170 km². It borders in the north with the department of Cochabamba , in the southwest with the department Oruro , in the south with the province of Rafael Bustillo , in the southeast with the province Charcas , in the northeast with the province Bernardino Bilbao .

The province extends over 75 kilometers in an east-west direction and over 60 kilometers in a north-south direction.

population

The population of the province of Alonso de Ibáñez increased by about a sixth in the last decade before the turn of the millennium and has stagnated since then:

• 1992 : 23,512 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 27,755 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 27,970 inhabitants (census)

The province's most important idiom is Quechua , spoken by 88 percent of the population, followed by Aymara (62 percent) and Spanish (49 percent). The capital of the province is Sacaca with 2,292 inhabitants ( 2012 census ).

96 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 95 percent live without sanitary facilities. ( 2001 )

78.5 percent of those in employment work in agriculture, 0.3 percent in mining, 8.7 percent in industry, and 12.5 percent in the service sector. ( 2001 )

95.5 percent of the population are Catholic, 3.5 percent are Protestant. ( 1992 )

structure

The province is divided into the following two districts ( Bolivian : Municipios ):

• 05-0701 Municipio Sacaca - 19,266 inhabitants ( 2012 census )
• 05-0702 Municipio Caripuyo - 8,704 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Alonso de Ibáñez

• Municipio Sacaca
  • Sacaca 2292 pop - Tarwachapi 602 pop - Colloma 347 pop - Vila Vila 307 pop

• Municipio Caripuyo
  • Caripuyo pop 554 - Juntavi pop 517 - Chojlla pop 348 - Huanchaca pop 230 - Challviri pop 99 - Cotaña pop 95 - San Miguel pop 90 - Calacondo pop 65

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 1992
2. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2001
3. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2012 ( Memento of the original of 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

• Potosí Department - Social data (PDF 5.36 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Caripuyo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 431 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Sacaca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 540 kB) ( Spanish )