Ladislao Cabrera Province

Ladislao Cabrera Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Oruro
Seat	Salinas de Garcí Mendoza
surface	8818 km²
Residents	14,678 (2012)
density	1.7 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-O
View over Salinas de Garcí Mendoza in the southern part of the province

Coordinates: 19 ° 25 ′  S , 67 ° 20 ′  W

Ladislao Cabrera is a province in the southern part of the Oruro department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia . The province bears its name in honor of the freedom fighter Ladislao Cabrera (1830–1921).

location

The province of Ladislao Cabrera is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro department. It lies between 19 ° 02 'and 19 ° 56' south latitude and between 66 ° 35 'and 67 ° 43' west longitude .

It borders in the north on the province of Sud Carangas , in the west on the province of Sabaya , in the south on the Department of Potosí , in the east on the province of Eduardo Avaroa and in the northeast on the province of Sebastián Pagador .

The province extends for 100 kilometers from north to south and 125 kilometers from east to west.

population

The population of the province of Ladislao Cabrera has almost doubled over the past two decades:

• 1992 : 7,363 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 11,698 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 14,678 inhabitants (census)

The province's most important idiom is Aymara , spoken by 90.5 percent of the population, ahead of Spanish (86.4 percent) and Quechua (19.7 percent). 42.5 percent of the population are younger than 15 years old. ( 2001 )

99.9 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 90.0 percent live without sanitary facilities ( 1992 ).

82.4 percent of those in employment work in agriculture, 0.1 percent in mining, 1.8 percent in industry, and 15.7 percent in the service sector ( 2001 ).

85.4 percent of the population are Catholic, 10.2 percent are Protestant ( 1992 ).

structure

The province is divided into the following two municipalities :

• 04-0801 Municipio Salinas de Garcí Mendoza - 11,705 inhabitants ( 2012 census )
• 04-0802 Municipio Pampa Aullagas - 2,973 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Ladislao Cabrera

• Municipio Salinas de Garcí Mendoza
  • Salinas de Garcí Mendoza 593 pop - Challuma 289 pop - Puqui 274 pop - Lupuyo 237 pop - Catuyo 196 pop - Challacota 184 pop - Sighualaca 172 pop - Concepción de Belén 148 pop - Chalhua 146 pop - Tambo Tambillo 137 pop - Ucumasi 133 pop - Playa Verde 126 pop - Villa Esperanza Quinsuyo 117 pop - Aroma 115 pop - Jirira 109 pop - San Martín 38 pop .

• Municipio Pampa Aullagas
  • Pampa Aullagas 1074 pop - Bengal Vinto 351 pop - Ichalula 244 pop .

Individual evidence

1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
2. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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 Oruro - social data (PDF 6.01 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Salinas de Garcí Mendoza - detailed map and population data (PDF; 806 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Pampa Aullagas - detailed map and population data (PDF) ( Spanish )