Narciso Campero Province

Province of Campero
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Cochabamba
Seat	Aiquile
surface	5550 km²
Residents	35,763 (2012)
density	6.4 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-C

Coordinates: 18 ° 15 ′  S , 65 ° 0 ′  W

Narciso Campero (short: Campero ) is one of sixteen provinces in the southeastern part of the Cochabamba department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia . It is named after the Bolivian general and president (1880–1884) Narciso Campero .

location

The province lies between the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Central . It borders in the northwest with the province of Mizque , in the southwest with the Department Potosí , in the south with the department Chuquisaca , in the east with the department Santa Cruz , and in the north with the province Carrasco .

The province extends between about 17 ° 50 'and 18 ° 40' south latitude and 64 ° 45 'and 65 ° 48' west longitude, its extent from west to east and from north to south is each about 75 kilometers.

population

The population of the province of Campero has increased by about a seventh in the past two decades, but has decreased in the last decade:

year	Residents	source
1992	30,358	census
2001	37.011	census
2012	35,763	census

46.1 percent of the population is younger than 15 years, the literacy rate in the province is 65.5 percent. (1992)

60.1 percent of the population speak Spanish , 82.3 percent speak Quechua , and 0.4 percent speak Aymara . (1992)

88.8 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 88.6 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992) .

92.3 percent of the population are Catholic , 5.8 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

The province of Campero was divided into the following three municipalities at the last census of 2012 :

• 03-0201 Municipio Aiquile - 23,267 inhabitants
• 03-0202 Municipio Pasorapa - 6,696 inhabitants
• 03-0203 Municipio Omereque - 5,800 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Narciso Campero

• Municipio Aiquile
  • Aiquile 7863 pop - Villa Granado 682 pop - Jatun Ayllu Quewiñal Suyu Chuwi 516 pop - Novillero 494 pop - Quiroga 428 pop.

• Municipio Pasorapa
  • Pasorapa 3134 pop.

• Municipio Omereque
  • Omereque pop 1335 - Esmeralda pop 498 - Peña Colorada pop 376

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 March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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

• Department of Cochabamba - Social data (PDF 7.77 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Aiquile - detailed map and population data (PDF; 801 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Omereque - detailed map and population data (PDF; 468 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Pasorapa - detailed map and population data (PDF; 800 kB) ( Spanish )