Daniel Campos Province

Daniel Campos Province
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Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Potosí
Seat	Llica
surface	12,106 km²
Residents	5850 (2012)
density	0.5 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-P

-20.183333333333 -67.8Coordinates: 20 ° 11 ′ S , 67 ° 48 ′ W

The province of Daniel Campos is a province in the northwestern part of the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia . The province is named after the poet Daniel Campos , who came from this region.

location

The Daniel Campos Province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It lies between 19 ° 25 'and 20 ° 50' south latitude and between 66 ° 49 'and 68 ° 47' west longitude . It borders on the Oruro Department in the north, the Republic of Chile in the west , and the Nor Lípez Province in the south and east . The province extends for about 240 kilometers in an east-west direction and 180 kilometers in a north-south direction.

geography

The province lies in a salt flat of the southern Altiplano and about half of it is occupied by the western part of the Salar de Uyuni salt lake . The Salar de Uyuni has an average height of 3657 m, on the border with Chile the Alto Totoni in the Cordillera Sillaguay reaches a height of 5740 m. The province has an arid high mountain climate, with annual precipitation below 200 m, in the west even below 100 mm, and daily average temperatures of 0-5 ° C throughout the year.

population

The population of the province of Daniel Campos has increased by around a quarter in the past two decades:

1992 : 4,630 inhabitants ( census )
2001 : 5,067 inhabitants (census)
2012 : 5,850 inhabitants (census)

The most important idiom of the province with 80 percent is Spanish , 59 percent of the population speak Aymara . The capital of the province is Llica .

87 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 91 percent live without sanitary facilities. 73 percent of the population work in agriculture, 3 percent in mining, 2 percent in industry, 22 percent in services. 87 percent of the population are Catholic, 8 percent Protestant.