Sajama Province

Sajama Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Oruro
Seat	Curahuara de Carangas
surface	5790 km²
Residents	9390 (2012)
density	1.6 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-O
The eponymous volcano Sajama

Coordinates: 18 ° 15 ′  S , 68 ° 12 ′  W

Sajama is a province in the northwestern part of the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

Sajama Province is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department. It lies between 17 ° 39 'and 18 ° 39' south latitude and between 67 ° 38 'and 68 ° 45' west longitude .

It borders in the northwest on the La Paz department , in the west on the Republic of Chile , in the southwest on the province of Sabaya , in the southeast on the province of Litoral , in the east on the province of Carangas and in the northeast on the province of San Pedro de Totora .

The province extends over a length of 120 kilometers in north-south direction and over 135 kilometers in east-west direction.

population

The population of Sajama Province has increased by about a fifth in the past two decades:

• 1992 : 7,891 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 9,096 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 9,390 inhabitants (census)

43.4 percent of the population are younger than 15 years. 90.4 percent of the population speak Aymara , 88.6 percent Spanish, and 4.2 percent Quechua . ( 2001 )

97.0 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 90.8 percent live without sanitary facilities ( 1992 ).

68.2 percent of the workforce work in agriculture, 0.3 percent in mining, 5.4 percent in industry, 26.1 percent in the service sector ( 2001 ).

66.1 percent of the population are Catholic, 26.9 percent are Protestant ( 1992 ).

structure

The province is divided into the following two municipalities :

• 04-0401 Municipio Curahuara de Carangas - 4,183 inhabitants (2012 census)
• 04-0402 Municipio Turco - 5,207 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Sajama

• Municipio Curahuara de Carangas
  • Curahuara de Carangas 1668 pop - Sajama 276 pop - Lagunas 164 pop - Caripe 134 pop

• Municipio Turco
  • Turco 574 pop - Tambo Quemado 418 pop - Cosapa 264 pop - Chachacomani 168 pop

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 Curahuara de Carangas - detailed map and population data (PDF; 679 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Turco - detailed map and population data (PDF; 746 kB) ( Spanish )