José Manuel Pando Province

José Manuel Pando Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	La Paz
Seat	Santiago de Machaca
surface	1976 km²
Residents	7381 (2012)
density	3.7 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-L

Coordinates: 17 ° 10 ′  S , 69 ° 20 ′  W

José Manuel Pando is one of twenty provinces of the Bolivian department of La Paz and is located in the south-western part of the department. The province bears its current name in honor of José Manuel Pando (1848–1917), who was President of Bolivia from 1899 to 1904.

location

The province is located in the western part of the Bolivian Altiplano south of Lake Titicaca and borders on the Republic of Peru in the west , the province of Pacajes in the southeast , and the province of Ingavi in the northeast .

The province extends between about 16 ° 57 'and 17 ° 29' south latitude and 69 ° 01 'and 69 ° 39' west longitude, it measures 50 kilometers from north to south and 50 kilometers from west to east.

population

The population of the province of José Manuel Pando has increased by more than half in the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	4,577	census
2001	6 137	census
2012	7 381	census

The province's literacy rate is 91.5 percent, with 96.7 percent for men and 74.6 percent for women.

The infant mortality rate is 8.2 percent (1992) to 5.2 percent (2001) declined.

80.6 percent of the population speak Spanish , 90.0 percent speak Aymara , and 0.2 percent speak Quechua . (2001)

91.5 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 51.2 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

73.5 percent of households have a radio, 1.9 percent a television, 51.2 percent a bicycle, 2.1 percent a motorcycle, 1.4 percent a car, 0.3 percent a refrigerator, and 0.2 percent a telephone. (2001)

62.2 percent of the population are Catholic , 32.2 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

The province of José Manuel Pando was divided into the following two municipalities at the last census of 2012 :

• 02-1901 Municipio Santiago de Machaca - 4,500 inhabitants
• 02-1902 Municipio Catacora - 2,881 inhabitants

Localities in the province of José Manuel Pando

• Municipio Santiago de Machaca
  • Santiago de Machaca 819 pop ( 2001 ) - Alto Alianza 448 pop ( 2012 ) - Berenguela 95 pop ( 2001 )

• Municipio Catacora
  • Catacora pop 548 ( 2012 ) - Thola Khollu pop 32 ( 2012 )

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 of the Tatara region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10 MB)
• La Paz Department - Social data (PDF 11.91 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Catacora - detailed map and population data (PDF; 337 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Santiago de Machaca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 502 kB) ( Spanish )