Capinota Province

Capinota Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Cochabamba
Seat	Capinota
surface	1495 km²
Residents	29,659 (2012)
density	20 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-C

Coordinates: 17 ° 45 ′  S , 66 ° 15 ′  W

Capinota is a province in the southwestern part of the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The province is one of sixteen provinces in the department of Cochabamba. It borders in the northwest on the province of Quillacollo , in the southwest on the province of Arque , in the south on the Potosí department , in the east on the province of Esteban Arce , and in the north on the province of Cercado .

The province extends roughly between 17 ° 28 'and 17 ° 56' south latitude and 66 ° 33 'and 66 ° 49' west longitude, its extent from west to east is 25 kilometers, from north to south 55 kilometers.

population

The population of the province of Capinota has increased by about a fifth in the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	24,444	census
2001	25,582	census
2012	29,659	census

44.8 percent of the population is younger than 15 years, the literacy rate in the province is 67.5 percent. (1992)

61.9 percent of the population speak Spanish , 96.2 percent Quechua , and 1.0 percent Aymara . (1992)

61.5 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 72.0 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992) .

91.2 percent of the population are Catholic , 7.3 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

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

• 03-0701 Municipio Capinota - 19,392 inhabitants ( 2001: 16,945 inhabitants )
• 03-0702 Municipio Santiváñez - 6,527 inhabitants ( 2001: 6,402 inhabitants )
• 03-0703 Municipio Sicaya - 3.740 inhabitants ( 2001: 2.235 inhabitants )

Localities in the province of Capinota

• Municipio Capinota
  • Capinota 5264 pop - Irpa Irpa 3868 pop - Apillapampa 1180 pop - Sarcobamba 928 pop - Buen Retiro 844 pop - Yatamoco 811 pop - Irpa Irpa (Disperso) 568 pop - Charamoco 500 pop - Hornoma 443 pop . - Villcabamba 360 pop - Cala Caja 119 pop

• Municipio Santiváñez
  • Santiváñez 874 pop.

• Municipio Sicaya
  • Sicaya 857 pop - Orcoma 584 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 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

• Province of Capinota - Homepage ( Spanish )
• Department of Cochabamba - Social data (PDF 7.77 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Capinota - detailed map and population data (PDF; 361 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Santiváñez - detailed map and population data (PDF; 332 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Sicaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 213 kB) ( Spanish )