Omasuyos Province

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Omasuyos Province
location
Basic data
Country Bolivia
Department La Paz
Seat Achacachi
surface 2065 km²
Residents 84,484 (2012)
density 41 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 BO-L

Coordinates: 16 ° 3 ′  S , 68 ° 38 ′  W

Omasuyos is one of twenty provinces in the central western part of the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The province is located on the Bolivian Altiplano and borders in the north with the province of Muñecas , in the north-west with the province Eliodoro Camacho , in the west and south with Lake Titicaca and the province Manco Kapac , in the south-east with the province Los Andes , and in the north-east with the Larecaja Province .

The province extends between approximately 15 ° 47 'and 16 ° 12' south latitude and 68 ° 27 'and 69 ° 00' west longitude, its extent from west to east is 45 kilometers, from north to south 40 kilometers.

population

The population of Omasuyos Province has increased by about a third over the past two decades:

  • 1992 : 73,703 inhabitants ( census )
  • 2001 : 85,702 inhabitants ( census )
  • 2012 : 84,484 inhabitants ( census )

41.3 percent of the population are younger than 15 years. (1992)

The literacy rate in the province is 68.5 percent. (1992)

62.8 percent of the population speak Spanish , 0.6 percent speak Quechua , and 96.3 percent speak Aymara . (1992)

63.1 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 84.4 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992) .

82.3 percent of the population are Catholic , 12.6 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

The province of Omasuyos has been subdivided into the following six municipalities since 2010 :

Localities in the province of Omasuyos

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GEOHive according to: Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)

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