Sabaya Province

Sabaya Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Oruro
Seat	Sabaya
surface	5885 km²
Residents	10,924 (2012)
density	1.9 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-O
Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Sabaya

Coordinates: 19 ° 7 ′  S , 68 ° 5 ′  W

Sabaya is a province in the southwest of the Oruro department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The Sabaya Province (formerly: Atahuallpa Province ) is one of 16 provinces in the Oruro Department. It lies between 18 ° 35 'and 19 ° 39' south latitude and between 67 ° 31 'and 68 ° 39' west longitude .

It borders in the north on the province of Sajama , in the west on the Republic of Chile and the province of Puerto de Mejillones , in the southwest on the Department of Potosí , in the southeast on the province Ladislao Cabrera and in the northeast on the province Litoral . The province extends from northwest to southeast, with a length of 160 kilometers and an average width of 50 kilometers.

population

The population of Sabaya Province has tripled in the past two decades:

• 1992 : 3,567 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 7,114 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 10,924 inhabitants (census)

40.7 percent of the population are younger than 15 years. 92 percent of the population speak Spanish , 67 percent Aymara, and 9 percent Quechua . ( 2001 )

97.3 percent of the population have no electricity, 96.6 percent live without sanitary facilities ( 1992 ).

66.4 percent of the workforce work in agriculture, 1.6 percent in mining, 4.9 percent in industry, 27.1 percent in the service sector ( 2001 ).

59 percent of the population are Catholic, 32 percent are Protestant ( 1992 ).

structure

The province is divided into the following three municipalities :

• 04-0901 Municipio Sabaya - 8,018 inhabitants
• 04-0902 Municipio Coipasa - 903 inhabitants
• 04-0903 Municipio Chipaya - 2,003 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Sabaya

• Municipio Sabaya
  • Julo 748 pop - Sabaya 486 pop - Villa Vitalina 453 pop - Pisiga Bolívar 298 pop - Pagador 284 pop - Villa Rosario 258 pop - Sacabaya 216 pop - Pisiga Sucre 187 pop - Comujo 184 pop - Cahuana 173 pop - Negrillos 151 pop - Tunapa 131 pop - Parajaya 25 pop.

• Municipio Coipasa
  • Coipasa 742 pop.

• Municipio Chipaya
  • Chipaya pop. 827 - Ayparavi pop. 411 - Manazaya pop. 403.

Individual evidence

1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
2. ↑ In Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2001
3. ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 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 Oruro - social data (PDF 6.01 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Sabaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 807 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Coipasa - detailed map and population data (PDF; 355 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Chipaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 320 kB) ( Spanish )