Province of Eustaquio Méndez

Province of Eustaquio Méndez
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Tarija
Seat	Villa San Lorenzo
surface	4060 km²
Residents	34,993 (2012 census)
density	8.6 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-T

Coordinates: 20 ° 15 ′  S , 64 ° 50 ′  W

Eustaquio Méndez is a province in the northwestern part of the Tarija Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The province of Eustaquio Méndez is one of six provinces in the Tarija department. It lies between 20 ° 57 'and 21 ° 36' south latitude and between 64 ° 23 'and 65 ° 15' west longitude .

The province is bordered to the north and west by the Chuquisaca , on the south by José María Avilés Province in the southeast of the province Cercado , and the east by the province Burnet O'Connor .

The province extends over a length of 90 kilometers in a north-south direction and over 105 kilometers in an east-west direction.

population

The population of the province of Eustaquio Méndez has increased by around 15 percent over the past two decades:

• 1992 : 29,868 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 32,038 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 34,993 inhabitants (census)

46.9 percent of the population are younger than 15 years. 99.7 percent of the population speak Spanish , 1.7 percent Quechua , 0.2 percent Aymara , and 0.1 percent Guaraní . ( 2001 )

In 1992, 78.1 percent of the population had no access to electricity , 77.8 percent lived without sanitary facilities . By 2012 it was possible to increase the power supply to 80.6% and the number of toilets in households to 68.8%. Today (as of January 2020) there is almost a full supply of electricity. There are concrete investment projects for the remaining localities not yet connected to the grid.

67.8 percent of those in employment work in agriculture , 0.1 percent in mining , 5.9 percent in industry , and 26.2 percent in the service sector ( 2001 ).

95.1 percent of the population are Catholic , 3.1 percent are Protestant ( 1992 ).

structure

The province is divided into the following two municipalities :

• 06-0501 Municipio San Lorenzo - 23,639 inhabitants
• 06-0502 Municipio El Puente - 11,354 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Eustaquio Méndez

• Municipio San Lorenzo
  • San Lorenzo 3401 pop - Tomatitas 1234 pop - Rancho Norte 1123 pop - San Lorenzo (Canasmoro) 715 pop - Bordo El Mollar 667 pop - Tomatas Grande 657 pop - La Victoria 632 pop - Lajas Merced 580 pop. - Sella Méndez pop 531 - Carachimayo pop 528 - Coimata pop 523 - Canasmoro pop 441 - Calama pop 439 - Erquis Norte pop 390 - Leon Cancha pop 316 - Rincón de la Victoria pop 216 - La Pampa 216 Pop - San Pedro de las Peñas 123 pop - Alto Cajas 79 pop

• Municipio El Puente
  • Iscayachi 730 pop - El Puente 554 pop - Quebrada Grande 513 pop - Chayaza 188 pop - Carrizal 155 pop - La Parroquía 147 pop - Curqui 89 pop - Ircalaya 82 pop .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
2. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2001
3. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2012 ( Memento of the original of 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

• Tarija Department - Provincial Social Data ( Spanish ) (PDF 3.13 MB)
• Municipio El Puente - detailed map and population data (PDF; 466 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio San Lorenzo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 514 kB) ( Spanish )