José Miguel de Velasco Province

José Miguel de Velasco Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Santa Cruz
Seat	San Ignacio de Velasco
surface	65,425 km²
Residents	69,742 (2012)
density	1.1 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-S
Landscape near San Ignacio

Coordinates: 15 ° 30 ′  S , 61 ° 0 ′  W

José Miguel de Velasco is a province in the northeastern part of the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

The province has existed since October 12, 1880 and is named in honor of General José Miguel de Velasco , four-time President of Bolivia.

location

The province is one of fifteen provinces in the Santa Cruz Department. It borders in the west with the province of Ñuflo de Chávez , in the south with the province Chiquitos , in the southeast with the province Ángel Sandoval , in the east with the Republic of Brazil , and in the northeast with the department Beni .

It extends between 13 ° 30 'and 17 ° 10' south latitude and 59 ° 25 'and 62 ° 05' west longitude, its length from north to south is 500 kilometers, its latitude up to 300 kilometers.

It has a size of 66,794 square kilometers.

population

The population of the province of José Miguel de Velasco has increased by around half in the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	42 929	census
2001	56 702	census
2012	69 742	census

49.3 percent of the population are younger than 15 years. 99.2 percent of the population speak Spanish , 2.5 percent Quechua , 0.6 percent Guaraní and 0.6 percent Aymara .

72.3 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 35.5 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992).

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

structure

The province of José Miguel de Velasco was divided into the following three municipalities in the last census of 2012 :

• 07-0301 Municipio San Ignacio de Velasco - 48,302 km² - 52,276 inhabitants ( 2001: 41,412 inhabitants )
• 07-0302 Municipio San Miguel - 8,807 km² - 11,327 inhabitants ( 2001: 10,273 inhabitants )
• 07-0303 Municipio San Rafael - 9,685 km² - 6,139 inhabitants ( 2001: 5,017 inhabitants )

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

• Municipio San Ignacio - detailed map and population data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 3.64 MB)
• Municipio San Miguel - detailed map and population data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 1.31 MB)
• Municipio San Rafael - detailed map and population data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 1.58 MB)
• Indocumentación en las comunidades indígenas de la provincia Velasco Fundación TIERRA. Santa Cruz 2005 (PDF; 1.3 MB) ( Spanish )
• Santa Cruz Department - Social data ( Spanish ) (PDF 5.12 MB)