Belisario Boeto Province

Belisario Boeto Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Chuquisaca
Seat	Villa Serrano
surface	2000 km²
Residents	11,159 (2012 census)
density	5.6 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-H

Coordinates: 18 ° 55 ′  S , 64 ° 20 ′  W

Belisario Boeto is a province in the northeastern part of the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The province is one of ten provinces in the Chuquisaca department. It borders in the northwest with the province of Jaime Zudáñez , in the southwest and south with the province Tomina , in the east with the department Santa Cruz , and in the north with the department Cochabamba .

The province extends approximately between 18 ° 38 'and 19 ° 11' south latitude and 64 ° 02 'and 64 ° 30' west longitude, its extent from west to east is 30-40 kilometers, from north to south 65 kilometers.

population

The population of the province of Belisario Boeto has decreased by about a tenth over the past two decades:

• 1992 : 12,617 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 12,277 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 11,159 inhabitants (census)

45.4 percent of the population is younger than 15 years, the literacy rate in the province is 60.5 percent. (1992)

90.6 percent of the population speak Spanish , 30.6 percent Quechua , and 0.1 percent Aymara . (1992)

86.0 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 90.2 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992) .

89.7 percent of the population are Catholic , 5.6 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

The province of Belisario Boeto consists of only one district ( Bolivian : Municipio ):

• Municipio Villa Serrano

Localities in the province of Belisario Boeto

• Villa Serrano 3298 pop - Mendoza 605 pop - Nuevo Mundo 458 pop - Urriolagoitia 145 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 Villa Serrano - detailed map and population data (PDF; 775 kB) ( Spanish )