Florida Province

Florida Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Santa Cruz
Seat	Samaipata
surface	4132 km²
Residents	32,842 (2012)
density	7.9 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-S

Coordinates: 18 ° 8 ′  S , 63 ° 53 ′  W

Florida is a province in the western part of the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .

location

The province is bordered by the Ichilo Province to the north, the Manuel María Caballero Province to the northwest, the Vallegrande Province to the southwest, the Cordillera Province to the southeast , and the Andrés Ibáñez Province to the east .

population

The population of the province of Florida has increased by almost half in the past two decades:

• 1992 : 22,750 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 27,447 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 32,842 inhabitants (census)

The capital of the province is the city of Samaipata with 4,398 inhabitants ( 2012 census ), the proportion of the urban population in the province was 25.5 percent in 1992. 41.1 percent of the population are younger than 15 years (1992).

98.9 percent of the population speak Spanish , 10.9 percent Quechua , 1.0 percent Aymara , and 0.1 percent Guaraní (1992).

60.7 percent of the workforce work in agriculture , 0.2 percent in mining , 5.1 percent in industry , 34.0 percent in the service sector (2001).

90.1 percent of the population are Catholic , 8.2 percent are Protestant (1992).

65.6 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 68.3 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992).

structure

The province is divided into the following four districts (Bolivian: Municipios ):

• 07-0901 Municipio Samaipata in the eastern part of the province with 10,472 inhabitants (2012)
• 07-0902 Municipio Pampa Grande in the western part of the province with 9,198 inhabitants
• 07-0903 Municipio Mairana in the northern part of the province with 10,177 inhabitants
• 07-0904 Municipio Quirusillas in the southwestern part of the province with 2,995 inhabitants

Individual evidence

1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
2. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2001
3. ↑ GEOHive according to: Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2013
4. ↑ Municipio Samaipata - population data and detailed map
5. ↑ Municipio Pampa Grande - population data and detailed map
6. ^ Municipio Mairana - population data and detailed map
7. ↑ Municipio Quirusillas - population data and detailed map

Web links

• Santa Cruz Department - Social data (PDF 5.12 MB) ( Spanish )