Pantaleón Dalence Province

Pantaleón Dalence Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Oruro
Seat	Huanuni
surface	1210 km²
Residents	29,497 (2012)
density	24 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-O
Machacamarca Railway Museum

Coordinates: 18 ° 10 ′  S , 66 ° 50 ′  W

Pantaleón Dalence is a province in the eastern part of the Oruro department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The Atahuallpa Province is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department. It lies between 18 ° 05 'and 18 ° 35' south latitude and between 66 ° 10 'and 66 ° 45' west longitude .

It borders in the northwest on the province of Cercado , in the southwest on the province Poopó , in the east on the Department of Potosí , and in the northeast on the department of Cochabamba .

The province extends over 65 kilometers in an east-west direction and over 55 kilometers in a north-south direction.

population

The population of the province of Pantaleón Dalence has increased by almost a fifth over the past two decades:

• 1992 : 24,892 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 23,608 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 29,497 inhabitants (census)

45 percent of the population are younger than 15 years. 93.2 percent of the population speak Spanish , 69.8 percent Quechua, and 21.2 percent Aymara . ( 2001 )

27.7 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 87.4 percent live without sanitary facilities ( 1992 ).

21.7 percent of those in employment work in agriculture, 38.2 percent in mining, 5.9 percent in industry, and 34.2 percent in the service sector ( 2001 ).

82.3 percent of the population are Catholic, 14.3 percent are Protestant ( 1992 ).

structure

The province is divided into the following two municipalities :

• 04-0701 Municipio Huanuni - 24,677 inhabitants (2012 census)
• 04-0702 Municipio Machacamarca - 4,820 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Pantaleón Dalence

• Municipio Huanuni
  • Huanuni 20,336 pop - Japo 451 pop - Viluyo 354 pop - Morococala 353 pop - Villacollo 130 pop

• Municipio Machacamarca
  • Machacamarca 2749 pop - Sora 493 pop - Realenga 356 pop - Sora Sora 99 pop.

Individual evidence

1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
3. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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

• Departamento Oruro - social data (PDF 6.01 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Huanuni - detailed map and population data (PDF; 379 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Machacamarca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 249 kB) ( Spanish )