Ichilo Province

Ichilo Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Santa Cruz
Seat	Buena Vista
surface	14,232 km²
Residents	92,721 (2012)
density	6.5 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-S

Coordinates: 16 ° 53 ′  S , 64 ° 16 ′  W

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

founding

The province was established by decree of April 8, 1926 . Its name goes back to the Ichilo River , which flows through the province.

location

The province of Ichilo borders in the north with the department Beni , in the west with the department Cochabamba , in the southwest with the province Manuel María Caballero , in the south with the province Florida , in the southeast with the province Andrés Ibáñez , in the east with the province Sara , and in the northeast to the province of Ñuflo de Chávez .

population

The population of Ichilo Province has almost doubled over the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	49 484	census
2001	70 444	census
2012	92 721	census
2017	113 666	Update

47.8 percent of the population are younger than 15 years. The literacy rate in the province is 78.5 percent.

96.1 percent of the population speak Spanish , 40.7 percent Quechua , 1.9 percent Aymara and 0.6 percent Guaraní (1992) .

67.1 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 46.6 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992) .

81.3 percent of the population are Catholic , 15.1 percent are Protestant (1992) .

geography

The mean altitude of the province is 386  m . The mean annual mean temperature of the province is 24.3 ° C, the mean annual precipitation is 2,563 mm.

Cities

The capital of the province is Buena Vista with 4,405 inhabitants ( 2012 census ), other important cities are

• Yapacaní - 30,952 inhabitants
• Santa Fe de Yapacaní - 8,454 inhabitants
• San Juan de Yapacaní - 5,401 inhabitants
• San Carlos - 4,620 inhabitants
• San Germán - 2,312 inhabitants

economy

The main agricultural product of the province is rice ; Ichilo accounts for 50% of the total production of the Santa Cruz department; other important economic goods are cocoa and timber .

structure

In the last census of 2012, the province was divided into the following four counties ( Bolivian : Municipios ):

• 07-0401 Municipio Buena Vista 12,879 pop .
• 07-0402 Municipio San Carlos 20,093 pop .
• 07-0403 Municipio Yapacaní 50,558 pop.
• 07-0403 Municipio San Juan de Yapacaní 9,191 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. 
4. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2011

Web links

• Santa Cruz Department - Social data (PDF 5.12 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Buena Vista - detailed map and population data (PDF 1.13 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio San Carlos - detailed map and population data (PDF 805 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Yapacaní - detailed map and population data (PDF 2.04 MB) ( Spanish )