Arani Province

Arani Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Cochabamba
Seat	Arani
surface	508 km²
Residents	18,444 (2012)
density	36 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-C
Lago Asiruqucha near Vacas , Arani Province

Coordinates: 17 ° 37 ′  S , 65 ° 40 ′  W

Vacas with Lago Pilawit'u (left) and Lago Qullpaqucha (right)

Arani is a province in the central part of the Cochabamba department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The province is one of sixteen provinces in the high valley of the Vallo Alto in the department of Cochabamba. It borders the province of Punata to the west, the province of Mizque to the south, the province of Carrasco to the east , and the province of Tiraque to the north .

The province extends roughly between 17 ° 31 'and 17 ° 43' south latitude and 65 ° 53 'and 66 ° 15' west longitude, its extent from west to east is 30 kilometers, from north to south 20 kilometers.

population

The population of the province of Arani has decreased by about a fifth in the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	23,331	census
2001	24.053	census
2012	18,444	census

43.6 percent of the population is younger than 15 years, the literacy rate in the province is 68.0 percent. (1992)

52.7 percent of the population speak Spanish , 96.6 percent Quechua , and 0.4 percent Aymara . (1992)

66.6 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 88.2 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992) .

90.4 percent of the population are Catholic , 8.6 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

The province of Arani is divided into two municipalities :

• 03-0501 Municipio Arani - 9,504 inhabitants ( 2001: 11,542 inhabitants )
• 03-0502 Municipio Vacas - 8,990 inhabitants ( 2001: 12,511 inhabitants )

Localities in the province of Arani

• Municipio Arani
  • Arani 3542 pop - Pocoata 562 pop.

• Municipio Vacas
  • Vacas 757 pop - Chaulla Mayu 514 pop

Individual evidence

1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
3. ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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

• Department of Cochabamba - Social data (PDF 7.77 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Arani - detailed map and population data (PDF; 285 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Vacas - detailed map and population data (PDF; 302 kB) ( Spanish )