Chiquitos Province

Chiquitos Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Santa Cruz
Seat	San Jose de Chiquitos
surface	31,429 km²
Residents	82,429 (2012)
density	2.6 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-S

Coordinates: 18 ° 0 ′  S , 60 ° 0 ′  W

Chiquitos is a province in the central part of the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia . Together with the Province of José Miguel de Velasco , the Province of Ñuflo de Chávez , the Province of Ángel Sandoval , the Province of Germán Busch and the Province of Guarayos, it forms the so-called Gran Chiquitanía . The capital of the province is San José de Chiquitos .

location

The province is one of fifteen provinces in the Santa Cruz Department. It borders in the northwest with the province of Ñuflo de Chávez , in the west with the province Andrés Ibáñez , in the south with the province Cordillera , in the southeast with the province Germán Busch , in the east with the province Ángel Sandoval , and in the north with the province José Miguel de Velasco .

It extends between 17 ° 00 'and 18 ° 37' south latitude and 58 ° 54 'and 62 ° 45' west longitude, its east-west extent is about 500 kilometers, its north-south extent up to 220 kilometers.

population

The population of Chiquitos Province has almost doubled over the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	42 519	census
2001	60 359	census
2012	82 429	census
2017	100 122	Update

structure

In the last census of 2012, the province of Chiquitos was divided into the following three districts ( Bolivian : Municipios ):

• 07-0501 Municipio San José de Chiquitos - 28,922 inhabitants
• 07-0502 Municipio Pailón - 37,866 inhabitants
• 07-0503 Municipio Roboré - 15,641 inhabitants

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 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. 
4. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2011

Web links

• Santa Cruz Department - Social data (PDF 5.12 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Pailón - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.18 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Roboré - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.62 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio San José de Chiquitos - detailed map and population data (PDF; 2.59 MB) ( Spanish )