Cercado Province (Oruro)

Province of Cercado
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Oruro
Seat	Oruro
surface	5766 km²
Residents	309,277 (2012)
density	54 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-O

Coordinates: 17 ° 48 ′  S , 67 ° 6 ′  W

Cercado is a province in the northeastern part of the Oruro department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The province of Cercado is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro department. It lies between 17 ° 22 'and 18 ° 35' south latitude and between 66 ° 21 'and 67 ° 20' west longitude .

It borders in the northwest with the province of Tomas Barrón , with the department La Paz and with the province Nor Carangas , in the southwest with the province Saucarí , in the southeast with the province Poopó and with the province Pantaleón Dalence , and in the east and north with the department Cochabamba .

The province extends from north to south over 135 kilometers and from east to west over 105 kilometers.

population

The population of the province of Cercado has increased by about half in the past two decades:

• 1992 : 213,755 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 241,230 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 309,277 inhabitants (census)

The province's most important idiom is Spanish , spoken by 96.7 percent of the population, followed by Quechua (43.3 percent) and Aymara (25.5 percent). ( 2001 )

39.4 percent of the population are younger than 15 years old. ( 2001 )

18.6 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 67.5 percent live without sanitary facilities ( 1992 ).

16.3 percent of the workforce work in agriculture, 1.8 percent in mining, 11.9 percent in industry, 70.0 percent in the service sector ( 2001 ).

83.0 percent of the population are Catholic, 13.5 percent are Protestant ( 1992 ).

structure

The province is divided into the following four municipalities :

• 04-0101 Municipio Oruro - 264,683 inhabitants ( 2012 census )
• 04-0102 Municipio Caracollo - 23,083 inhabitants
• 04-0103 Municipio El Choro - 8,723 inhabitants
• 04-0104 Municipio Paria (formerly: Soracachi ) - 12,788 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Cercado

• Municipio Oruro
  • Oruro 264,683 pop.

• Municipio Caracollo
  • Caracollo 5356 pop - La Joya 1481 pop - Villa Puente 1005 pop - Vila Vila 464 pop - Ocotavi 444 pop - Kemalla 428 pop - Sillota Belén 328 pop - Querarani 210 pop - Lajma 201 pop - Santa Fe 45 pop - Caihuasi 9 pop

• Municipio El Choro
  • Regantes Cruzero Belén 451 pop - El Choro 185 pop - Rancho Grande 161 pop - Challacollo 108 pop - Crucero Belén 74 pop - San Felipe de Chaytavi 29 pop.

• Municipio Paria
  • Soracachi 450 pop - Jatita 450 pop - Huayña Pasto Chico 430 pop - Huayña Pasto Grande 413 pop - Cala Cala 387 pop - Sepulturas 341 pop - Kkullkhu Pampa 270 pop - Jachuma 220 pop - Thola Pampa 127 pop - Paria 106 pop. - Lequepalca 105 pop.

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 Oruro - detailed map and population data (PDF) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Caracollo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 695 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio El Choro - detailed map and population data (PDF; 422 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Paria - detailed map and population data (PDF; 422 kB) ( Spanish )