Hernando Siles Province

Hernando Siles Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Chuquisaca
Seat	Monteagudo
surface	5473 km²
Residents	32,398 (2012 census)
density	5.9 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-H

Coordinates: 20 ° 20 ′  S , 64 ° 5 ′  W

Hernando Siles is a province in the eastern part of the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

The province bears its name in honor of Hernando Siles Reyes (1882-1942), a Bolivian politician who was president of the country from 1926 to 1930.

location

The province is one of ten provinces in the Chuquisaca department. It borders in the northwest with the province of Tomina , in the west with the province Azurduy , the province Nor Cinti and the province Sud Cinti , in the south with the department Tarija , and in the east with the province Luis Calvo .

The province extends approximately between 19 ° 28 'and 21 ° 00' south latitude and 63 ° 47 'and 64 ° 20' west longitude, its extent from west to east is 45 kilometers, from north to south 165 kilometers.

population

The population of the province of Hernando Siles has decreased by about ten percent over the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	35 255	census
2001	36 511	census
2012	32 398	census

47.1 percent of the population is younger than 15 years, the literacy rate in the province is 66.3 percent. (1992)

98.2 percent of the population speak Spanish , 11.3 percent Quechua , 0.3 percent Aymara , and 12.3 percent other indigenous languages. (1992)

82.2 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 80.5 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992) .

93.2 percent of the population are Catholic , 4.1 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

The province of Hernando Siles is divided into two municipalities :

• 01-0501 Municipio Monteagudo - 24,118 inhabitants (2012)
• 01-0502 Municipio Huacareta - 8,280 inhabitants (2012)

Localities in the province of Hernando Siles

• Municipio Monteagudo
  • Monteagudo 9135 pop - Candua 2308 pop - San Miguel de las Pampas 654 pop - San Miguel del Bañado 538 pop - San Juan del Piraí 459 pop.

• Municipio Huacareta
  • Huacareta 1524 pop - Ñacamiri 406 pop - Rosario del Ingre 306 pop - Añimbo 186 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 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 Chuquisaca - social data (PDF 4.32 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Monteagudo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 944 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Huacareta - detailed map and population data (PDF; 754 kB) ( Spanish )