Loayza Province

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Loayza Province
location
Basic data
Country Bolivia
Department La Paz
Seat Luribay
surface 3370 km²
Residents 47,295 (2012)
density 14 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 BO-L

Coordinates: 16 ° 58 ′  S , 67 ° 38 ′  W

Loayza is one of twenty provinces of the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia and is located in the southeastern part of the department. It bears its name in honor of the general and Bolivian Vice President José Ramón Loayza .

location

The province is located southeast of Lake Titicaca and includes the region between the Cordillera of the Serranía de Sicasica in the west and the Cordillera Quimsa Cruz in the east. It borders in the north on the province of Sud Yungas and the province of Murillo , in the west on the province of Aroma , in the south on the Oruro department , and in the east on the province of Inquisivi .

The province extends between about 16 ° 35 'and 17 ° 27' south latitude and 67 ° 16 'and 68 ° 00' west longitude, it measures from north to south up to 90 kilometers, from west to east up to 65 kilometers.

population

The population of Loayza Province has increased by around a third over the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 35 809 census
2001 43 731 census
2012 47 295 census

The province's literacy rate is 84.8 percent, 91.3 percent for men and 78.1 percent for women.

The infant mortality rate is 6.9 per cent ( 1992 ) and 7.0 percent ( in 2001 ) remain high.

76.9 percent of the population speak Spanish , 91.2 percent speak Aymara , and 0.3 percent speak Quechua . ( 2001 )

76.8 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 83.2 percent live without sanitary facilities . ( 2001 )

69.1 percent of households own a radio, 10.2 percent a television, 17.6 percent a bicycle, 1.1 percent a motorcycle, 2.5 percent a car, 0.7 percent a refrigerator, 0.3 percent one Phone. ( 2001 )

76.7 percent of the population are Catholic , 17.0 percent are Protestant . ( 1992 )

structure

The province of Loayza was divided into the following five municipalities in the last census of 2012 :

Localities in the province of Loayza

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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo

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