Punata Province

Punata Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Cochabamba
Seat	Punata
surface	850 km²
Residents	54,409 (2012)
density	64 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-C

Coordinates: 17 ° 35 ′  S , 65 ° 50 ′  W

Punata is one of sixteen provinces in the central part of the Cochabamba department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The province is located on the southwestern edge of the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental in close proximity to the city of Cochabamba . It borders in the northwest on the province of Chapare , in the west on the province Germán Jordán , in the south on the province Esteban Arce , in the southeast on the province Mizque , in the east on the province Arani , and in the northeast on the province Tiraque .

The province extends between approximately 17 ° 27 'and 17 ° 45' south latitude and 66 ° 09 'and 66 ° 23' west longitude, its extent from west to east is 20 kilometers, from north to south 35 kilometers.

population

The population of the Punata Province has increased by around 15 percent in the past two decades, especially in the second decade:

year	Residents	source
1992	47,402	census
2001	47,735	census
2012	54,409	census

41.5 percent of the population is younger than 15 years, the literacy rate in the province is 78.2 percent. (1992)

76.4 percent of the population speak Spanish , 94.3 percent speak Quechua , and 0.7 percent speak Aymara . (1992)

28.5 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 76.4 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992) .

94.7 percent of the population are Catholic , 3.8 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

In the last census of 2012, the province of Punata was divided into the following five municipalities :

• 03-1401 Municipio Punata 28,707 inhabitants ( 2001: 26,140 inhabitants )
• 03-1402 Municipio Villa Rivero 8,135 inhabitants ( 2001: 5,857 inhabitants )
• 03-1403 Municipio San Benito 13,562 inhabitants ( 2001: 12,720 inhabitants )
• 03-1404 Municipio Tacachi 1,303 inhabitants ( 2001: 1,210 inhabitants )
• 03-1405 Municipio Cuchumuela 2,702 inhabitants ( 2001: 1,808 inhabitants )

Localities in the province of Punata

• Municipio Punata
  • Punata 19,559 pop.

• Municipio Villa Rivero
  • Villa Rivero 1858 pop - Aramasi 1750 pop

• Municipio San Benito
  • San Benito 4221 pop - San Benito (Sunchu Pampa) 4089 pop - San Lorenzo 989 pop - Sunchu Pampa 503 pop.

• Municipio Tacachi
  • Tacachi 1198 pop.

• Municipio Cuchumuela
  • Cuchumuela 627 pop.

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

Web links

• Department of Cochabamba - Social data (PDF 7.77 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Cuchumuela - detailed map and population data (PDF; 216 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Punata - detailed map and population data (PDF; 241 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio San Benito - detailed map and population data (PDF; 231 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Tacachi - detailed map and population data (PDF; 179 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Villa Rivero - detailed map and population data (PDF; 225 kB) ( Spanish )