Guarayos Province

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Guarayos Province
location
Basic data
Country Bolivia
Department Santa Cruz
Seat Ascención de Guarayos
surface 20,293 km²
Residents 48,301 (2012)
density 2.4 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 BO-S
Rice cultivation in the province of Guarayos
Rice cultivation in the province of Guarayos

Coordinates: 15 ° 20 ′  S , 63 ° 30 ′  W

Guarayos is a province in the northwestern part of the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The province is one of fifteen provinces in the Santa Cruz Department. It borders in the north and northwest with the Beni department , in the southwest with the province of Ichilo and the province of Obispo Santistevan , and in the south and east with the province of Ñuflo de Chávez .

It extends between 13 ° 58 'and 16 ° 30' south latitude and 62 ° 29 'and 64 ° 44' west longitude, its east-west extent is up to 320 kilometers, its north-south extent about 380 kilometers.

population

The population of Guarayos Province has almost tripled in the past two decades:

  • 1992 : 17,697 inhabitants ( census )
  • 2001 : 31,577 inhabitants (census)
  • 2012 : 48,301 inhabitants (census)

Parts of the province are inhabited by Guarayos people who have settled here since the end of the 16th century.

structure

The province of Guarayos was divided into the following three districts ( Bolivian : Municipios ) at the last census of 2012 :

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

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