Eliodoro Camacho Province

Eliodoro Camacho Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	La Paz
Seat	Puerto Acosta
surface	2080 km²
Residents	53,747 (2012 census)
density	26 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-L

Coordinates: 15 ° 30 ′  S , 69 ° 5 ′  W

Eliodoro Camacho is one of twenty provinces of the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia and is located in the western part of the department.

location

The province is located on the Bolivian Altiplano on the eastern bank of Lake Titicaca and borders the Republic of Peru to the northwest , Lake Titicaca to the west, the Omasuyos province to the south, the Muñecas province to the east , and to the north Bautista Saavedra Province .

The province extends between about 15 ° 14 'and 15 ° 54' south latitude and 68 ° 52 'and 69 ° 19' west longitude, it measures 75 kilometers from north to south and 40 kilometers from west to east.

population

The population of the province of Eliodoro Camacho has changed little over the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	53 487	census
2001	57 745	census
2012	53 747	census

The literacy rate in the province is 73.0 percent and the infant mortality rate is 6.8 percent. (2001)

47.5 percent of the population speak Spanish , 94.7 percent speak Aymara , and 0.2 percent speak Quechua . (2001)

86.4 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 82.4 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

47.8 percent of households have a radio, 3.6 percent a television, 17.4 percent a bicycle, 0.6 percent a motorcycle, 0.6 percent a car, 0.2 percent a refrigerator, 0.2 percent one Phone.

86.2 percent of the population are Catholic , 12.9 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

The province of Eliodoro Camacho was divided into three municipalities until 2009 and consisted of five municipalities at the last census in 2012:

• 02-0401 Municipio Puerto Acosta - 11,267 inhabitants
• 02-0402 Municipio Mocomoco - 15,916 inhabitants
• 02-0403 Municipio Puerto Carabuco - 14,036 inhabitants
• 02-0404 Municipio Humanata - 5,342 inhabitants
• 02-0405 Municipio Escoma - 7,186 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Eliodoro Camacho

• Municipio Puerto Acosta
  • Puerto Acosta 1359 Pop.

• Municipio Mocomoco
  • Mocomoco 505 pop - Cajcachi 405 pop - Italaque 346 pop

• Municipio Puerto Carabuco
  • Chaguaya Pop . 794 - Quilima Pop . 655 - Chuani Pop. 558 - Puerto Carabuco Pop . 555.

• Municipio Humanata
  • Quillihuyo 491 pop - Humanata 426 pop

• Municipio Escoma
  • Escoma 1162 pop - Challapata Grande 669 pop - Cala Cala 508 pop - Villa Puni 413 pop - Challapata Belén 176 pop - Collasuyo 13 pop.

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. 

Web links

• La Paz Department - Social data (PDF 11.91 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Mocomoco - detailed map and population data (PDF; 416 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipios Puerto Acosta with Humanata and Escoma - detailed map and population data (PDF; 473 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Puerto Carabuco - detailed map and population data (PDF; 408 kB) ( Spanish )