Nor Carangas Province

Nor Carangas Province
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Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Oruro
Seat	Huayllamarca
surface	870 km²
Residents	5502 (2012)
density	6.3 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-O

-17.933333333333 -67.833333333333Coordinates: 17 ° 56 ′ S , 67 ° 50 ′ W

Nor Carangas is a province in the northern part of the Oruro department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The province of Nor Carangas is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro department. It lies between 17 ° 46 'and 18 ° 09' south latitude and between 67 ° 13 'and 67 ° 41' west longitude .

It borders in the north on the department of La Paz , in the west on the province of San Pedro de Totora , in the south on the province of Carangas , in the south-east on the province of Saucarí and in the north-east on the province of Cercado .

The province extends from northwest to southeast, with a length of 70 kilometers and an average width of 25 kilometers.

population

The population of the province of Nor Carangas has increased slightly over the past two decades:

1992 : 4900 inhabitants ( census )
2001 : 5790 inhabitants (census)
2012 : 5502 inhabitants (census)

The province's most important idiom is Aymara , spoken by 96 percent of the population, ahead of Spanish (84 percent) and Quechua (14 percent). ( 2001 )

99.7 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 98.7 percent live without sanitary facilities ( 1992 ).

84.5 percent of those in employment work in agriculture, 0.1 percent in mining, 3.1 percent in industry, and 12.3 percent in the service sector ( 2001 ).

80 percent of the population are Catholic, 15 percent are Protestant ( 1992 ).

Further data on the population can be found in the description of the Municipio Huayllamarca (see below).