Murillo Province

Pedro Domingo Murillo Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	La Paz
Seat	Palca
surface	4705 km²
Residents	1,663,099 (2012)
density	353 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-L

Coordinates: 16 ° 30 ′  S , 68 ° 0 ′  W

The province Pedro Domingo Murillo (or short Murillo ) is one of twenty provinces in the central part of the Department of La Paz in the South American Andes -state Bolivia . It is the most populous province of Bolivia with the two large cities La Paz and El Alto . The Murillo province bears its name in honor of the Bolivian freedom hero Pedro Domingo Murillo (1756-1809).

Location in the vicinity

The province is located on the Bolivian Altiplano southeast of Lake Titicaca and borders the province Larecaja in the north, the province Los Andes in the west, the province Ingavi and the province Aroma in the southwest , the province Loayza in the south and the province Loayza in the east the province of Sud Yungas and the province of Nor Yungas , and in the northeast to the province of Caranavi .

The province extends between about 16 ° 00 'and 17 ° 00' south latitude and 67 ° 30 'and 68 ° 30' west longitude, it measures about 80 kilometers from north to south and 60 kilometers from west to east.

population

The population of the province of Murillo has increased by about half over the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	1 156 423	census
2001	1 484 328	census
2012	1,663 099	census

36.4 percent of the population is younger than 15 years (1992) , child mortality is 6.0 percent (2001) .

The literacy rate in the province is 90.0 percent. (2001)

97.1 percent of the population speak Spanish , 48.3 percent speak Aymara , and 8.6 percent speak Quechua . (1992)

11.8 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 48.7 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

83.0 percent of the population are Catholic , 10.3 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

The province of Murillo is divided into the following five municipalities :

• 02-0101 Municipio La Paz - 764,617 inhabitants ( 2012 census )
• 02-0102 Municipio Palca - 16,622 inhabitants
• 02-0103 Municipio Mecapaca - 16,027 inhabitants
• 02-0104 Municipio Achocalla - 21,899 inhabitants
• 02-0105 Municipio El Alto - 843,934 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Murillo

• Municipio La Paz
  • La Paz 757,184 pop - Apaña 1288 pop - Pongo 341 pop - Zongo 63 pop.

• Municipio Palca
  • Cohoni 1084 pop - Palca 796 pop - Mutuhuaya 667 pop - Unni 518 pop - Aramani 323 pop .

• Municipio Mecapaca
  • Huajchilla 1078 pop - El Palomar 1077 pop - Mecapaca 998 pop - Yupampa Valencia 936 pop - Santiago de Collana 931 pop - Las Carreras 842 pop - Taypichulo 789 pop - Huaricana Alta 696 pop - Avircato 628 pop . - Huayhuasi 541 pop. - Janko Suni 417 pop.

• Municipio Achocalla
  • Achocalla 18,442 pop - Tuni 517 pop - Asunta Quillviri 412 pop - Uypaca 310 pop .

• Municipio El Alto
  • El Alto 842,378 pop - El Ingenio 886 pop

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

• La Paz Department - Social data (PDF 11.91 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Achocalla - detailed map and population data (PDF; 784 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio El Alto - detailed map and population data (PDF) ( Spanish )
• Municipio La Paz - detailed map and population data (PDF) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Mecapaca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 447 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Palca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 534 kB) ( Spanish )