Litoral Province

This article covers the Litoral Province in Bolivia. The province of the same name in Equatorial Guinea is described in the article Litoral (Mbini) .

Litoral Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Oruro
Seat	Huachacalla
surface	2894 km²
Residents	10,409 (2012)
density	3.6 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-O
Landscape in the west of the Litoral Province

Coordinates: 18 ° 46 ′  S , 68 ° 15 ′  W

Litoral (also: Litoral de Atacama ) is a province in the southwestern part of the Oruro department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia . On September 6, 1960, President Víctor Paz Estenssoro renamed the province previously called Sabaya in memory of the lost Litoral Department , whose territory borders on today's Bolivia just a few kilometers west of it.

location

The Litoral Province is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department. It lies between 18 ° 32 'and 19 ° 04' south latitude and between 67 ° 29 'and 68 ° 06' west longitude .

It borders in the north on the province of Sajama , in the west and south on the province of Sabaya , in the south-east on the province Sud Carangas and in the north-east on the province Carangas .

The province extends over a length of 65 kilometers in north-south direction and 55 kilometers in east-west direction.

population

The population of the province of Litoral has increased fivefold in the past two decades:

• 1992 : 2,087 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 4,555 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 10,409 inhabitants (census)

34.5 percent of the population are younger than 15 years. 89.8 percent of the population speak Spanish , 76.0 percent Aymara, and 13.7 percent Quechua . ( 2001 )

94.5 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 90.5 percent live without sanitary facilities ( 1992 ).

78.0 percent of the workforce work in agriculture , 3.1 percent in industry , 18.9 percent in the service sector ( 2001 ).

77.6 percent of the population are Catholic , 16.3 percent are Protestant ( 1992 ).

structure

The province is divided into the following five municipalities :

• 04-0501 Municipio Huachacalla - 1,003 inhabitants ( 2012 census )
• 04-0502 Municipio Escara - 4,223 inhabitants
• 04-0503 Municipio Cruz de Machacamarca - 1,967 inhabitants
• 04-0504 Municipio Yunguyo del Litoral - 514 inhabitants
• 04-0505 Municipio Esmeralda - 2,702 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Litoral

• Municipio Huachacalla
  • Huachacalla 1003 pop.

• Municipio Escara
  • Escara 1500 pop - Nor Capi 515 pop - Payrumani 499 pop

• Municipio Cruz de Machacamarca
  • Huayllas Pop. 420 - Cruz de Machacamarca Pop. 278 - Florida Sur Pop. 252.

• Municipio Yunguyo del Litoral
  • Yunguyo 162 pop.

• Municipio Esmeralda
  • Belén 534 pop - Romero Pampa 330 pop - Charcollo 324 pop - Esmeralda 231 pop - Peña Peñani 229 pop .

Individual evidence

1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
3. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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 Cruz de Machacamarca - detailed map and population data (PDF) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Escara - detailed map and population data (PDF; 466 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Esmeralda - detailed map and population data (PDF; 309 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Huachacalla - detailed map and population data (PDF) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Yunguyo del Litoral - detailed map and population data (PDF) ( Spanish )

See also

• Litoral Department
• Littoral