Federico Román Province

Federico Román Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Pando
Seat	Nueva Esperanza
surface	13,557 km²
Residents	7034 (2012)
density	0.5 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-N

Coordinates: 10 ° 20 ′  S , 66 ° 0 ′  W

Federico Román (also: General Federico Román ) is a province in the northeastern part of the Pando department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia . The province is named after General Federico Román .

location

The province is one of five provinces in the Pando department. It borders in the west on the province of Abuná , in the southwest on the province of Manuripi , in the southeast on the Beni department , and in the east and north on the Republic of Brazil .

The border with the Beni department in the south is formed by the Río Beni , and with the neighboring country Brazil, the Rio Madeira in the east and the Río Abuná in the north.

The province extends between 09 ° 41 'and 10 ° 51' south latitude and 65 ° 17 'and 66 ° 39' west longitude, its extension from west to east is 200 kilometers, from north to south 150 kilometers.

population

The population of the province of Federico Román has increased about fivefold in the past two decades:

• 1992 : 1,516 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 2,242 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 7,034 inhabitants (census)

39.6 percent of the population is younger than 15 years, the literacy rate in the province is 72.6 percent. ( 1992 )

87.9 percent of the population speak Spanish , 3.1 percent Quechua , 1.2 percent Aymara , and 26.5 percent foreign languages ​​(primarily Portuguese , due to its proximity to neighboring Brazil). ( 1992 )

83.1 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 59.1 percent live without sanitary facilities . ( 1992 )

83.1 percent of the population are Catholic , 15.2 percent are Protestant . ( 1992 )

structure

The province of Federico Román was divided into the following three municipalities in the 2012 census :

• 09-0501 Municipio Nueva Esperanza (3,710 km²) in the eastern part of the province - 2,068 inhabitants - 0.6 inhabitants / km²
• 09-0502 Municipio Villa Nueva (2,826 km²) in the southern part of the province - 3,275 inhabitants - 1.2 inhabitants / km²
• 09-0503 Municipio Santos Mercado (7,021 km²) in the western part of the province - 1,691 inhabitants - 0.2 inhabitants / km²

Localities in the province of Federico Román

• Municipio Nueva Esperanza
  • Nueva Esperanza Pop . 651 - Arca de Israel Pop . 237 - Aserradero Los Indios Pop . 145.

• Municipio Villa Nueva
  • Loma Alta 646 pop.

• Municipio Santos Mercado
  • Villa Victoria Pop. 333 - San Martín Pop. 240.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
2. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2001
3. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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

• Departamento Pando - Social data of the provinces (PDF 2.49 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Nueva Esperanza - detailed map and population data (PDF; 433 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Santos Mercado - detailed map and population data (PDF) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Villa Nueva - detailed map and population data (PDF) ( Spanish )