Nor Yungas Province

Nor Yungas Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	La Paz
Seat	Coroico
surface	1720 km²
Residents	36,983 (2012)
density	22 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-L
View from Coroico to the province of Nor Yungas

Coordinates: 16 ° 10 ′  S , 67 ° 40 ′  W

Nor Yungas ("North Yungas") is one of twenty provinces of the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia and is located in the central part of the department.

location

The province is located on the eastern slopes of the Bolivian Cordillera Real and is bordered to the northwest and west by the province of Murillo , to the south and east by the province of Sud Yungas , and to the north by the province of Caranavi .

The province extends between about 15 ° 58 'and 16 ° 24' south latitude and 67 ° 22 'and 68 ° 00' west longitude, it measures 45 kilometers from north to south and up to 65 kilometers from west to east.

population

The population of Nor Yungas Province has almost doubled in the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	20 433	census
2001	23 681	census
2012	36 983	census

The province's literacy rate is 88.1 percent, 92.8 percent for men and 82.7 percent for women.

The infant mortality rate is 7.2 percent (1992) to 6.8 percent (2001) declined.

89.9 percent of the population speak Spanish , 67.1 percent speak Aymara , and 2.6 percent speak Quechua . (2001)

41.0 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 84.6 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

81.7 percent of households have a radio, 32.9 percent a television, 13.0 percent a bicycle, 7.6 percent a motorcycle, 4.6 percent a car, 11.8 percent a refrigerator, 3.4 percent a Phone. (2001)

84.6 percent of the population are Catholic , 10.1 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

The province of Nor Yungas was divided into the following two municipalities at the last census of 2012 :

• 02-1401 Municipio Coroico - 19,397 inhabitants ( 2001: 14,329 inhabitants )
• 02-1402 Municipio Coripata - 17,586 inhabitants ( 2001: 12,428 inhabitants )

Localities in the province of Nor Yungas

• Municipio Coroico
  • Coroico 2319 pop - Santa Bárbara 410 pop - Mururata 349 pop - Challa 260 pop - Pacollo 241 pop - San Martín de Padilla 184 pop - Quenallata 142 pop - Huarinilla 131 pop - San José de Chicalulo 103 pop - Yolosa 99 pop - Chuspipata 98 pop - Cotapata 44 pop - Korisamaña 19 pop

• Municipio Coripata
  • Arapata 1984 pop - Trinidad Pampa 1958 pop - Coripata 1238 pop - Santa Rosa de Lima 995 pop - San José de Pery 989 pop - San Agustín 778 pop - Nogalani 748 pop - Chillamani 601 pop - Auquisamaña 575 - Coscoma 565 pop - Santa Gertrudis 529 pop - Machacamarca 490 pop - Marquirivi 474 pop - Los Anguias 472 pop - Dorado Grande 464 pop - Tabacal 445 pop - Chacón 439 pop - Choro Grande 424 pop - Milluhuaya pop 424 - Pararani pop 383 - San Felix pop 367 - Huayrapata pop 310 - Santa Bárbara pop 292 - Anacuri pop 246 - Umamarca pop 147

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

• La Paz Department - Social data (PDF 11.91 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Coripata - detailed map and population data (PDF; 594 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Coroico - detailed map and population data (PDF; 571 kB) ( Spanish )