Ayopaya Province

Ayopaya Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Cochabamba
Seat	Independencia (Ayopaya)
surface	9620 km²
Residents	54,408 (2012)
density	5.7 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-C

Coordinates: 16 ° 45 ′  S , 66 ° 35 ′  W

Ayopaya is a province in the northwestern part of the Cochabamba department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The province is one of sixteen provinces in the department of Cochabamba. It borders on the west by the department of La Paz , on the south by the Tapacarí Province , in the southeast of the province of Quillacollo , on the east by the province of Chapare , and on the northeast by the Beni Department .

The province extends between about 15 ° 48 'and 17 ° 27' south latitude and 66 ° 35 'and 67 ° 27' west longitude, its expansion from west to east is up to 60 kilometers, from north to south 150 kilometers.

population

The population of Ayopaya Province has remained roughly the same over the past two decades, but has declined over the past decade:

year	Residents	source
1992	54,597	census
2001	60,959	census
2012	54,408	census

45.8 percent of the population is younger than 15 years, the literacy rate in the province is 58.8 percent. (1992)

47.5 percent of the population speak Spanish , 97.2 percent Quechua , and 13.1 percent Aymara . (1992)

89.5 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 87.2 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992) .

85.1 percent of the population are Catholic , 13.5 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

The province of Ayopaya was divided into the following three municipalities at the last census of 2012 :

• 03-0301 Municipio Ayopaya - 23,535 inhabitants ( 2001: 26,825 inhabitants )
• 03-0302 Municipio Morochata - 13,284 inhabitants ( 2001: 20,567 inhabitants )
• 03-0303 Municipio Cocapata - 17,589 inhabitants ( 2001: 13,567 inhabitants )

Localities in the province of Ayopaya

• Municipio Ayopaya
  • Independencia pop 1751 - Kami pop 1092 - Patiño Alto pop 909 - Villa Hermosa pop 617 - Tiquirpaya pop 511 - Angostura pop 298 - Calchani pop 276 - Sivingani pop 185

• Municipio Morochata
  • Chinchiri pop 958 - Morochata pop 584 - San Isidro pop 577 - Choro pop 487 - Totorani pop 407 - Kiri Kiri pop 395 - Yayani Alto pop 325 - Piusilla pop 298 - Punacachi pop 167 - Pucarani Grande 150 pop.

• Municipio Cocapata
  • Incacasani pop 678 - Falsuri pop 495 - Cocapata pop 401

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 Ayopaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 635 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Morochata and Cocapata - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.46 MB) ( Spanish )