Bautista Saavedra Province

Bautista Saavedra Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	La Paz
Seat	Charazani
surface	2525 km²
Residents	16,308 (2012)
density	6.5 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-L
Charazani

Coordinates: 15 ° 0 ′  S , 68 ° 45 ′  W

Bautista Saavedra is one of twenty provinces in the northwestern part of the Bolivian department of La Paz . It bears its name in honor of Bautista Saavedra Mallea (1870–1939), Bolivian President from 1920 to 1925.

location

The province is located on the Bolivian Altiplano northeast of Lake Titicaca and borders on the northeast to northwest on the province of Franz Tamayo , in the west on the Republic of Peru , in the southwest on the province of Eliodoro Camacho , and in the southeast on the province of Muñecas and the province of Larecaja .

The province extends between about 14 ° 45 'and 15 ° 20' south latitude and 68 ° 18 'and 69 ° 12' west longitude, it measures up to 65 kilometers from north to south and up to 90 kilometers from west to east.

population

The population of the province of Bautista Saavedra has increased by around two thirds over the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	9 995	census
2001	11 475	census
2012	16 308	census

41.3 percent of the population are younger than 15 years. (1992)

The literacy rate in the province is 55.2 percent. (1992)

46.6 percent of the population speak Spanish , 89.3 percent speak Quechua , and 36.1 percent speak Aymara . (1992)

94.3 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 93.3 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992) .

89.1 percent of the population are Catholic , 5.7 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

In the last census of 2012, the province of Bautista Saavedra was divided into the following two districts ( Bolivian : Municipios ):

• 02-1601 Municipio Charazani - 13,023 inhabitants
• 02-1602 Municipio Curva - 3.285 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Bautista Saavedra

• Municipio Charazani
  • Amarete 3304 pop - Santa Rosa de Caata 775 pop - Charazani 723 pop - Chacahuaya 534 pop - - Chajaya 273 pop

• Municipio Curva
  • Curva 1047 pop - Taypi Cañuma 678 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 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

• La Paz Department - Social data (PDF 11.91 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Curva - detailed map and population data (PDF; 549 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Charazani - detailed map and population data (PDF; 883 kB) ( Spanish )