Puerto de Mejillones province

Puerto de Mejillones province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Oruro
Seat	La Rivera
surface	785 km²
Residents	2076 (2012)
density	2.6 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-O

Coordinates: 19 ° 4 ′  S , 68 ° 45 ′  W

Puerto de Mejillones is a province in the western part of the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The province of Puerto de Mejillones is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro department. It lies between 18 ° 53 'and 19 ° 16' south latitude and between 68 ° 10 'and 68 ° 26' west longitude .

It is surrounded in the north, west and east by the province of Sabaya , in the southwest it borders on the Republic of Chile . The province extends over 45 kilometers in north-south direction and over 35 kilometers in east-west direction.

population

The population of the province of Puerto de Mejillones has more than doubled in the past two decades:

• 1992 : 751 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 1,130 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 2,076 inhabitants (census)

42.6 percent of the population are younger than 15 years old. 97.0 percent of the population speak Spanish , 66.6 percent Aymara, and 8.6 percent Quechua . ( 2001 )

74 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 73 percent live without sanitary facilities ( 1992 ).

83.8 percent of the workforce work in agriculture, 1.0 percent in industry, 15.2 percent in the service sector ( 2001 ).

74 percent of the population are Catholic, 18 percent are Protestant ( 1992 ).

structure

The province is divided into the following three municipalities :

• 04-1501 Municipio La Rivera - 509 inhabitants
• 04-1502 Municipio Todos Santos - 727 inhabitants
• 04-1503 Municipio Carangas - 840 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Puerto de Mejillones

• Municipio La Rivera
  • La Rivera Pop. 189

• Municipio Todos Santos
  • Todos Santos 219 pop.

• Municipio Carangas
  • Triandino 306 pop - Carangas 34 pop

Individual evidence

1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
2. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2001
3. ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 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 Carangas - detailed map and population data (PDF; 221 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio La Rivera - detailed map and population data (PDF; 249 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Todos Santos - detailed map and population data (PDF; 213 kB) ( Spanish )