Province of Aniceto Arce

Province of Aniceto Arce
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Tarija
Seat	Padcaya
surface	4943 km²
Residents	53,081 (2012)
density	11 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-T
Church in Bermejo

Coordinates: 22 ° 12 ′  S , 64 ° 31 ′  W

Aniceto Arce (or short: Arce ) is a province in the southern part of the Tarija Department in the South American Andes -State Bolivia . The province is named after Aniceto Arce Ruiz (1824–1906), the Bolivian President from 1888 to 1892.

location

The province of Aniceto Arce is one of six provinces in the Tarija department. It lies between 21 ° 45 'and 22 ° 53' south latitude and between 64 ° 06 'and 65 ° 02' west longitude .

It borders in the north with the province of Cercado and the province of José María Avilés , in the west and southeast with the Republic of Argentina , in the east with the province Gran Chaco , and in the northeast with the province Burnet O'Connor .

The province extends over a length of 140 kilometers in north-south direction and over 100 kilometers in east-west direction.

population

The population of the province of Aniceto Arce has increased by about a fifth in the past two decades, but stagnated in the last of the two decades:

• 1992 : 44,713 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 52,570 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 53,081 inhabitants (census)

80.7 percent of the population speak Spanish , 8.6 percent Quechua , 1.0 percent Aymara , and 0.2 percent Guaraní .

55.4 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 51.4 percent live without sanitary facilities ( 1992 ).

42.1 percent of the workforce work in agriculture , 0.1 percent in mining , 10.2 percent in industry , 47.6 percent in the service sector ( 2001 ).

87.4 percent of the population are Catholic , 8.9 percent are Protestant ( 1992 ).

structure

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

• 06-0201 Municipio Padcaya - 18,681 inhabitants ( 2012 census )
• 06-0202 Municipio Bermejo - 34,400 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Anceto Arce

• Municipio Padcaya
  • Padcaya 1437 pop - Rosillas 450 pop - Camacho 382 pop - Chaguaya 371 pop - Cañas 366 pop - Tacuara 356 pop - Mecoya 297 pop - Queñahuayco 250 pop - Abra de San Miguel 221 pop - Rejara 212 - La Huerta Pop 201 - Orozas Pop 141 - Canchas Mayu Pop 133 - San Francisco Pop 128 - La Merced Pop 100 - San Antonio Pop 92

• Municipio Bermejo
  • Bermejo 29,459 pop - Colonia Linares 843 pop - Campo Grande 348 pop - Candado Grande 294 pop - Arrozales 154 pop - Barredero 132 pop - Porcelana 61 pop.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
2. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (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

• Tarija Department - Social data ( Spanish ) (PDF 3.13 MB)
• Municipio Bermejo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 265 kB)
• Municipio Padcaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 670 kB)