Ignacio Warnes Province
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Basic data | |
Country | Bolivia |
Department | Santa Cruz |
Seat | Warnes |
surface | 1216 km² |
Residents | 108,888 (2012) |
density | 90 inhabitants per km² |
ISO 3166-2 | BO-S |
Street in the town of Warnes |
Coordinates: 17 ° 20 ′ S , 63 ° 0 ′ W
Ignacio Warnes is a province in the central part of the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
The province is named after Colonel Ignacio Warnes (1772-1816), a military leader in the South American War of Independence.
location
The province is one of fifteen provinces in the Santa Cruz Department. It borders in the northwest with the province of Obispo Santistevan , in the west with the province Sara , in the south with the province Andrés Ibáñez , and in the east with the province Ñuflo de Chávez .
It extends between 17 ° and 17 ° 42 'south latitude and 62 ° 42' and 63 ° 14 'west longitude, its east-west extent is 70 kilometers, its north-south extent 85 kilometers. It has a size of 1216 square kilometers and is framed by the Río Piraí in the west and the Río Grande in the east.
population
The population of the province of Ignacio Warnes has almost tripled in the past two decades:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | 38 285 | census |
2001 | 53 231 | census |
2012 | 108 888 | census |
46.2 percent of the population are younger than 15 years. 95.2 percent of the population speak Spanish , 14.2 percent Quechua , 4.1 percent Guaraní and 1.3 percent Aymara .
41.9 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 47.9 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992).
88.4 percent of the population are Catholic , 8.8 percent are Protestant (1992).
structure
The province of Ignacio Warnes was divided into the following two districts ( Bolivian : Municipios ) in the last census of 2012 :
- 07-0201 Municipio Warnes - 96,406 inhabitants
- 07-0202 Municipio Okinawa Uno - 12,482 inhabitants
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ 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
- Santa Cruz Department - Social data (PDF 5.12 MB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Warnes - detailed map and population data (PDF; 678 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Okinawa Uno - detailed map and population data (PDF; 633 kB) ( Spanish )