Poopó Province

Poopó Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Oruro
Seat	Poopó
surface	3061 km²
Residents	16,775 (2012)
density	5.5 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-O
Poopó lake with flamingos

Coordinates: 18 ° 30 ′  S , 66 ° 52 ′  W

Poopó ([ po.o.ˈpo ]) is a province in the eastern part of the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The Poopó province is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro department. It extends between 18 ° 15 'and 18 ° 50' south latitude and between 66 ° 19 'and 66 ° 54' west longitude .

It borders in the northeast on the province of Pantaleón Dalence , in the northwest on the province of Cercado , in the west on the province Saucarí , in the southwest on the province Sud Carangas , in the south on the province Eduardo Avaroa and in the east on the department Potosí .

The province extends over 70 kilometers in east-west and north-south directions. The central town of the province is the rural town of Poopó with 3,618 inhabitants ( 2012 census ).

population

The population of the Poopó province has changed little over the past two decades:

• 1992 : 17,437 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 14,984 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 16,775 inhabitants (census)

The main idiom of the province is Spanish , spoken by 86 percent of the population, followed by Quechua (78 percent) and Aymara (22 percent). ( 2001 )

44 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 89 percent live without sanitary facilities. ( 2001 )

61 percent of the workforce work in agriculture, 12 percent in mining, 5 percent in industry, 22 percent in the service sector. ( 2001 )

86 percent of the population are Catholic, 12 percent are Protestant. ( 2001 )

structure

The province is divided into the following three municipalities :

• 04-0601 Municipio Poopó - 7,587 inhabitants ( 2012 census )
• 04-0602 Municipio Pazña - 5,955 inhabitants
• 04-0603 Municipio Antequera - 3.233 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Poopó

• Municipio Poopó
  • Poopó 3618 pop - Venta y Media 417 pop

• Municipio Pazña
  • Pazña pop 1407 - Peñas pop 1386 - Totoral pop 1128 - Avicaya pop 616 - Urmiri pop 168

• Municipio Antequera
  • Antequera pop 1751 - Campamento Bolívar pop 1120 - Tutuni pop 175

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 Antequera - detailed map and population data (PDF; 235 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Pazña - detailed map and population data (PDF; 331 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Poopó - detailed map and population data (PDF; 322 kB) ( Spanish )