Carangas Province

Carangas Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Oruro
Seat	Corque
surface	5472 km²
Residents	11,071 (2012)
density	2 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-O

Coordinates: 18 ° 20 ′  S , 67 ° 38 ′  W

Carangas is a province in the northern part of the Oruro department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The province of Carangas is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro department. It lies between 17 ° 59 'and 18 ° 54' south latitude and between 67 ° 09 'and 67 ° 45' west longitude .

It borders in the northwest on the province of San Pedro de Totora , in the west on the province Sajama , in the southwest on the province Litoral , in the southeast on the province Sud Carangas , in the east on the province Saucarí and in the northeast on the province Nor Carangas .

The province extends over 105 kilometers in north-south direction and 75 kilometers in east-west direction.

population

The population of the province of Carangas has increased by almost half in the past two decades:

• 1992 : 7,930 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 10,505 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 11,071 inhabitants (census)

The province's most important idiom is Aymara , spoken by 94 percent of the population, ahead of Spanish (84 percent) and Quechua (13 percent). 43.1 percent of the population are younger than 15 years old. ( 2001 )

92.5 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 98.1 percent live without sanitary facilities ( 1992 ).

79.8 percent of those in employment work in agriculture, 0.1 percent in mining, 3.5 percent in industry, and 16.6 percent in the service sector ( 2001 ).

72 percent of the population are Catholic, 23 percent are Protestant ( 1992 ).

structure

The province is divided into the following two municipalities :

• 04-0301 Municipio Corque - 9,221 inhabitants ( 2012 census )
• 04-0302 Municipio Choquecota - 1,850 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Carangas

• Municipio Corque
  • Opoqueri 1042 pop - Corque 1000 pop - San José de Kala 885 pop - San Antonio de Nor Cala 310 pop - Villa Esperanza 291 pop - San Pedro de Huaylloco 289 pop - Caracota 254 pop - Laca Laca Quita Quita 238 pop - Villa Copacabana 227 pop - Payoco 152 pop - Ancaravi 106 pop .

• Municipio Choquecota
  • Andapata pop. 341 - Choquecota pop . 194.

Individual evidence

1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
3. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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 Oruro - social data (PDF 6.01 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Choquecota - detailed map and population data (PDF) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Corque - detailed map and population data (PDF; 592 kB) ( Spanish )