Chapare Province

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Chapare
location
Basic data
Country Bolivia
Department Cochabamba
Seat Sacaba
surface 12,445 km²
Residents 262,239 (2012)
density 21 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 BO-C

Coordinates: 16 ° 50 ′  S , 66 ° 10 ′  W

Chapare is a province in the northern part of the Bolivian department of Cochabamba .

The province lies in the tropical lowlands and is largely covered by jungle . Chapare is scenic and little developed.

Location in the vicinity

The province is one of sixteen provinces in the department of Cochabamba. It extends approximately between 15 ° 48 'and 17 ° 30' south latitude and 65 ° 12 'and 66 ° 48' west longitude, its extension from west to east is 150 kilometers, from north to south 80 kilometers.

Neighboring provinces: the province borders on the province of Ayopaya in the west, on the province of Quillacollo and the province of Cercado in the southwest , on the province of Esteban Arce , the province of Germán Jordán and the province of Punata in the south, on the province of Tiraque in the south-east, and on the north-east the province of Carrasco , and in the north to the department of Beni .

population

The population of the province of Chapare has doubled over the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 131,727 census
2001 187.358 census
2012 262,239 census

41.5 percent of the population is younger than 15 years, the literacy rate in the province is 80.6 percent. (1992)

82.4 percent of the population speak Spanish , 84.4 percent Quechua , 4.8 percent Aymara , and 0.5 percent other indigenous languages. (1992)

63.2 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 56.4 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992) .

85.8 percent of the population are Catholic , 11.5 percent are Protestant (1992) .

economy

Since the 1980s, indigenous mine workers ( Mineros ) and small farmers ( Campesinos ) have increasingly settled in the Chapare , who no longer saw a livelihood in the highlands ( Altiplano ).

Since that time the chapare had developed into a center of coca cultivation . In the decades that followed, government programs against coca cultivation led to violent confrontations between government authorities and the coca farmers. The tensions erupted repeatedly in massive social unrest, during the course of which there were regular blockades on the important east-west road connection Cochabamba - Santa Cruz , which runs through the unrest province.

Evo Morales , leader of the Bolivian coca planter movement and President of Bolivia from 2006, is the son of one of the farmers who emigrated to the Chapare from the highlands around Oruro in order to be able to live. a. create a livelihood by growing coca. The end of his presidency also came from the integrated Chapare-Chimoré region, when he fled from violent opposition members in a dramatic way on November 12, 2019 in a plane belonging to the Mexican Air Force from Chimoré to Mexico (see also presidential election in Bolivia 2019 ).

structure

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

Villa Tunari on the Río Chapare

Localities in the province of Chapare

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

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