Esteban Arce Province

Esteban Arce Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Cochabamba
Seat	Tarata
surface	1245 km²
Residents	37,152 (2012)
density	30 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-C
San José Church in Tarata

Coordinates: 17 ° 50 ′  S , 66 ° 0 ′  W

Esteban Arce (also: Esteban Arze ) is a province in the southern part of the Cochabamba department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia . It bears its name in honor of General Esteban Arce , who at the beginning of the 19th century played a key role in the Bolivian struggle for independence against the Spanish colonial power.

location

The province is one of sixteen provinces in the department of Cochabamba. It borders in the west with the province of Capinota , in the southwest with the department Potosí , in the southeast with the province Mizque , in the east with the province Punata , in the northeast with the province Germán Jordán , and in the north with the province Chapare and the province Cercado .

The province extends approximately between 17 ° 30 'and 18 ° 00' south latitude and 66 ° 09 'and 66 ° 36' west longitude, its extension from west to east is 40 kilometers, from north to south 55 kilometers.

population

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

year	Residents	source
1992	29,717	census
2001	31,997	census
2012	37,152	census

42.7 percent of the population is younger than 15 years, the literacy rate in the province is 65.3 percent. (1992)

52.6 percent of the population speak Spanish , 97.3 percent Quechua , and 0.6 percent Aymara . (1992)

64.7 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 79.9 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992) .

90.8 percent of the population are Catholic , 7.2 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

The province of Esteban Arce was divided into the following four municipalities at the last census of 2012 :

• 03-0401 Municipio Tarata - 8,242 inhabitants ( 2001: 8,715 inhabitants )
• 03-0402 Municipio Anzaldo - 7,192 inhabitants ( 2001: 9,126 inhabitants )
• 03-0403 Municipio Arbieto - 17,352 inhabitants ( 2001: 9,438 inhabitants )
• 03-0404 Municipio Sacabamba - 4,366 inhabitants ( 2001: 4,718 inhabitants )

Localities in the province of Esteban Arce

• Municipio Tarata
  • Tarata 3952 pop - Huayculi 620 pop - Huasa Rancho 187 pop - Izata 121 pop .

• Municipio Anzaldo
  • Anzaldo 1209 pop - La Viña 111 pop - Quiriria 69 pop .

• Municipio Arbieto
  • Arbieto 5,335 pop - Santa Rosa de Lima 1622 pop - Llave Mayu 1,191 pop - Tiataco 1,148 pop - Mamanaca 775 pop - Alto Litoral 540 pop - Aranjuez 504 pop - Angostura 475 pop.

• Municipio Sacabamba
  • Sacabamba 612 pop - Matarani 379 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 March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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

• Department of Cochabamba - Social data (PDF 7.77 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Anzaldo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 442 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Arbieto - detailed map and population data (PDF; 260 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Tarata - detailed map and population data (PDF; 318 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Sacabamba - detailed map and population data (PDF; 267 kB) ( Spanish )