Manuel María Caballero Province
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Country | Bolivia |
Department | Santa Cruz |
Seat | Comarapa |
surface | 2310 km² |
Residents | 23,267 (2012) |
density | 10 inhabitants per km² |
ISO 3166-2 | BO-S |
Coordinates: 17 ° 49 ′ S , 64 ° 28 ′ W
Manuel María Caballero is a province in the western part of the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia . The province bears its name in honor of the Deputy Manuel María Caballero of Vallegrande , who co-signed the Bolivian constitution (Constitución política) of August 5, 1861.
location
The province is bordered to the west by the department of Cochabamba , to the south by the province of Vallegrande , to the east by the province of Florida , and to the northeast by the province of Ichilo .
population
The population of the province of Caballero has increased by almost half in the past two decades:
- 1992 : 16,074 inhabitants ( census )
- 2001 : 20,010 inhabitants (census)
- 2012 : 23,267 inhabitants (census)
The urban population made up 20.0 percent (1992). 44.9 percent of the population are younger than 15 years (1992).
95.4 percent of the population speak Spanish , 43.8 percent Quechua , and 1.6 percent Aymara (1992).
60.7 percent of the workforce work in agriculture , 0.2 percent in mining , 5.1 percent in industry , 34.0 percent in the service sector (2001).
90.1 percent of the population are Catholic , 8.4 percent are Protestant (1992).
70.1 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 70.8 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992).
structure
The province is divided into the following two districts ( Bolivian : Municipios ):
- 07-1301 Municipio Comarapa - 15,919 inhabitants (2012 census)
- 07-1302 Municipio Saipina - 7,390 inhabitants
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2001
- ↑ GEOHive according to: Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2013
Web links
- Santa Cruz Department - Social data (PDF 5.12 MB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Comarapa - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.18 MB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Saipina - detailed map and population data (PDF; 627 kB) ( Spanish )