Antonio Quijarro Province

Antonio Quijarro Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Potosí
Seat	Uyuni
surface	14,890 km²
Residents	54,947 (2012)
density	3.7 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-P
Ruta 5 in the municipality of Tomave between Potosí and Uyuni

Coordinates: 20 ° 6 ′  S , 66 ° 30 ′  W

Antonio Quijarro is a province in the central part of the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The Antonio Quijarro Province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It extends between 19 ° 21 'and 20 ° 59' south latitude and between 65 ° 46 'and 67 ° 15' west longitude . It borders on the north by the Oruro Department , on the west by the province of Nor Lípez , in the southeast of the province Sur Chichas , on the east by the province of Nor Chichas and José María Linares Province , and on the northeast by the Tomás Frías Province .

The province extends over 180 kilometers in an east-west direction and 225 kilometers in a north-south direction.

population

The population of the province of Antonio Quijarro has increased by almost half in the past two decades, with the increase occurring almost exclusively in the first decade of the new millennium:

• 1992 : 37,384 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 37,428 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 54,947 inhabitants (census)

The most important idiom of the province with 87 percent is Spanish , 74 percent of the population speak Quechua . The capital of the province is Uyuni with 10,191 inhabitants.

53 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 85 percent have no sanitary facilities. 50 percent of the employed work in agriculture, 8 percent in mining, 5 percent in industry, 37 percent in services. 86 percent of the population are Catholic, 11 percent Protestant.

structure

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

• 05-1201 Municipio Uyuni - 29,518 inhabitants ( 2012 census )
• 05-1202 Municipio Tomave - 14,666 inhabitants
• 05-1203 Municipio Porco - 10,763 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Antonio Quijarro

• Municipio of Uyuni
  • Uyuni 18,068 pop - Pulacayo 816 pop - Colchani 625 pop - Río Mulato 540 pop - Chacala 425 pop - Cerdas 345 pop - Coroma 251 pop - Chita 231 pop - Huanchaca 30 pop

• Municipio Tomave
  • Yura 968 pop - Tica Tica 915 pop - Tomave 661 pop - Tacora 620 pop - Calasaya 374 pop - Cuchagua 232 pop - San Francisco de Tarana 223 pop - Kilpani 191 pop - Tolapampa 135 pop - Opoco 115 pop.

• Municipio Porco
  • Porco 5287 pop - Agua de Castilla 2817 pop - Churcuita 454 pop - Chaquilla 145 pop - Carma 143 pop

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 Porco - detailed map and population data (PDF; 699 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Tomave - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.57 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Uyuni - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.79 MB) ( Spanish )