Gualberto Villarroel Province

Gualberto Villarroel Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	La Paz
Seat	San Pedro de Curahuara
surface	1935 km²
Residents	17,782 (2012)
density	9.2 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-L
Altiplano with llamas

Coordinates: 17 ° 40 ′  S , 67 ° 53 ′  W

Gualberto Villarroel is one of twenty provinces of the Bolivian department of La Paz and is located in the southern part of the department. The province bears its current name in honor of Gualberto Villarroel López (1908-1946), the 39th President of Bolivia.

location

The province lies in the central part of the Bolivian Altiplano on the Río Desaguadero and borders in the north with the province Aroma , in the north-west with the province Pacajes , and in the south and south-east with the department Oruro .

The province extends between about 17 ° 24 'and 17 ° 53' south latitude and 67 ° 30 'and 68 ° 18' west longitude, it measures 40 kilometers from north to south and 80 kilometers from west to east.

population

The population of the province of Gualberto Villarroel has increased by more than half over the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	11 685	census
2001	15 722	census
2012	17 782	census

The province's literacy rate is 87.6 percent, 94.3 percent for men and 80.1 percent for women.

The infant mortality rate is 8.8 percent (1992) to 6.8 percent (2001) declined.

74.8 percent of the population speak Spanish , 95.9 percent speak Aymara , and 0.3 percent speak Quechua . (2001)

98.7 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 70.0 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

78.0 percent of households have a radio, 2.0 percent a television, 77.6 percent a bicycle, 4.8 percent a motorcycle, 3.1 percent a car, 0.1 percent a refrigerator, and 0.5 percent a telephone. (2001)

59.9 percent of the population are Catholic , 26.5 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

The province of Gualberto Villarroel was divided into the following three municipalities at the last census of 2012 :

• 02-1801 Municipio San Pedro de Curahuara - 8776 inhabitants
• 02-1802 Municipio Papel Pampa - 7002 inhabitants
• 02-1803 Municipio Chacarilla - 2004 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Gualberto Villaroel

• Municipio of San Pedro de Curahuara
  • Villa Manquiri pop 477 - San Pedro de Curahuara pop 472 - Chilahuala pop 149 - Araj Huma pop 55

• Municipio Papel Pampa
  • San José 16 de Julio 428 pop. - Papel Pampa 142 pop. - San José Alto 195 pop.

• Municipio Chacarilla
  • San Juan Pacollo 334 pop - Puerto Aroma 232 pop - Chacarilla 109 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

• Relief map Corocoro region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
• La Paz Department - Social data (PDF 11.91 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Chacarilla - detailed map and population data (PDF; 354 ​​kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Papel Pampa - detailed map and population data (PDF; 346 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio San Pedro - detailed map and population data (PDF; 436 kB) ( Spanish )