Azurduy Province

Juana Azurduy de Padilla Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Chuquisaca
Seat	Azurduy
surface	4185 km²
Residents	24,855 (2012 census)
density	5.9 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-H

Coordinates: 20 ° 1 ′  S , 64 ° 29 ′  W

Juana Azurduy de Padilla (short: Azurduy ) is a province in the central-western part of the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

The province bears its name in honor of Juana Azurduy de Padilla (1781–1862), who fought against Spain in the Bolivian War of Independence together with her husband, Manuel Asencio Padilla (1773–1816) .

location

The province is one of ten provinces in the Chuquisaca department. It is bordered to the northwest by the Potosí department , to the west and south by the province of Nor Cinti , to the east by the province of Hernando Siles , and to the northeast by the province of Tomina .

The province extends approximately between 19 ° 33 'and 20 ° 28' south latitude and 64 ° 17 'and 64 ° 47' west longitude, its extent from west to east is 30 kilometers, from north to south 100 kilometers.

population

The population of the Azurduy province has increased by a quarter over the past two decades, but then almost returned to the original data:

• 1992 : 23,492 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 26,515 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 24,855 inhabitants (census)

47.2 percent of the population is younger than 15 years, the literacy rate in the province is 41.6 percent. (1992)

45.9 percent of the population speak Spanish , 77.1 percent Quechua , and 0.2 percent Aymara . (1992)

97.7 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 96.9 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992) .

96.1 percent of the population are Catholic , 2.3 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

The province of Azurduy is divided into two municipalities :

• Municipio Azurduy - 10,594 inhabitants (2012)
• Municipio Tarvita - 14.261 inhabitants (2012)

Localities in the province of Azurduy

• Municipio Azurduy
  • Azurduy pop 1229 - Tablani pop 636 - Torrecillas pop 214 - San Antonio pop 187

• Municipio Tarvita
  • Tarvita 960 pop - Pampa Huasi 707 pop - La Sillada 574 pop - San Pedro 535 pop - Molleni 495 pop - Capactala 390 pop - El Salto 384 pop - Tarea Pampa 206 pop - Pampas de Leque 109 pop - Trigo Loma 96 pop.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 1992
2. ↑ 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 Chuquisaca - social data (PDF 4.32 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Azurduy - detailed map and population data (PDF; 113 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Tarvita - detailed map and population data (PDF; 920 kB) ( Spanish )