Enrique Baldivieso Province

Enrique Baldivieso Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Potosí
Seat	San Agustin
surface	2254 km²
Residents	1684 (2012)
density	0.7 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-P

Coordinates: 21 ° 28 ′  S , 67 ° 28 ′  W

Enrique Baldivieso (also: Enrique Valdivieso) is a province in the southwestern part of the Potosí department in the southern part of the South American state of Bolivia . It bears its name in honor of the politician Enrique Baldivieso , who was Bolivian Vice President in 1938 and 1939.

location

The province of Enrique Baldivieso is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí department. It lies between 21 ° 03 'and 21 ° 51' south latitude and between 67 ° 07 'and 67 ° 48' west longitude . It is almost completely surrounded by the province of Nor Lípez in the east, north, west and south , only in the south-east it borders on the province of Sur Lípez for a distance of about twenty kilometers . The province stretches over a total of about 120 kilometers from northwest to southeast and has an average width of 35 kilometers.

The capital of the province is San Agustín with 639 inhabitants on the northern edge of the province. ( 2012 census )

population

The population of the province of Baldivieso has increased by about a third in the past two decades, especially in the last decade of the past millennium:

• 1992 : 1,313 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 1,640 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 1,684 inhabitants (update)

The most important idiom of the province with 96 percent is Quechua , 86 percent of the population speak Spanish . 46.5 percent of the population are younger than 15 years old.

99.7 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 99 percent live without sanitary facilities. 72 percent of the population work in agriculture, 28 percent in services. 95 percent of the population are Catholic, 2 percent Protestant.

structure

The province consists of only one county ( municipio ) of San Agustín , located in four cantons ( cantones ) divided:

• 05-1601-01 Canton San Agustín - 6 localities - 1,045 inhabitants (central place: San Agustín )
• 05-1601-02 Canton Alota - 7 localities - 440 inhabitants (central place: Alota )
• 05-1601-03 Canton Cerro Gordo - 1 village - 199 inhabitants (central place: Cerro Gordo )
• 05-1601-04 Canton of Todos Santos (central location: Todos Santos )

Localities in the province of Enrique Baldivieso

• San Agustín 639 pop - Alota 436 pop - Cerro Gordo 199 pop - Agua de Castilla 90 pop

Individual evidence

1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
2. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2001
3. ↑ GEOHive according to: Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2013.

Web links

• Municipio San Agustín - detailed map and population data (PDF; 708 kB) ( Spanish )
• Department Potosí - Social data of the provinces and municipalities (PDF 5.36 MB)