San Pedro de Totora Province

San Pedro de Totora Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Oruro
Seat	Totora
surface	1487 km²
Residents	5531 (2012)
density	3.7 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-O

Coordinates: 17 ° 51 ′  S , 68 ° 10 ′  W

San Pedro de Totora is a province in the northern part of the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The province of San Pedro de Totora is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro department. It lies between 17 ° 41 'and 18 ° 06' south latitude and between 67 ° 33 'and 67 ° 58' west longitude .

It borders in the north on the La Paz department , in the west and south-west on the province Sajama , in the south-east on the province Carangas and in the east on the province Nor Carangas .

The province extends over 45 kilometers in east-west and over 50 kilometers in north-south direction. The central town is Totora with 270 inhabitants (2012 census) in the northeastern part of the province, the largest town is Culta with 604 inhabitants in the southeast of the province.

geography

The province of San Pedro de Totora is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Serranía de Huayllamarca in the east. The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate, with temperatures fluctuating more during the day than during the year.

The mean average temperature of the region is 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 450 mm (see the climate diagram Curahuara de Carangas). The monthly average temperatures fluctuate only marginally between 7 ° C in July and 11 ° C in December, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the months of June and July and close to 100 mm from December to February.

population

The population of the province of San Pedro de Totora has increased by almost half in the past two decades:

• 1992 : 4,040 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 4,941 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 5,531 inhabitants (update)

The province's most important idiom is Aymara , spoken by 90 percent of the population, followed by Spanish (72.5 percent) and Quechua (3 percent). 43.0 percent of the population are younger than 15 years old. ( 2001 )

99 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 94 percent live without sanitary facilities ( 1992 ).

83.5 percent of those in employment work in agriculture, 4 percent in industry and 12.5 percent in the service sector ( 2001 ).

64 percent of the population are Catholic, 25 percent are Protestant ( 1992 ).

structure

The province consists of only one municipality :

• Municipio San Pedro de Totora - 5,531 inhabitants (2012 census)

Localities in the province of San Pedro de Totora

• Culta 604 pop - Sora Sora 387 pop - Huacanapi 328 pop - Totora 270 pop - Crucero 107 pop.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 1992
2. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2001
3. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2012 ( Memento of the original of 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 San Pedro de Totora - detailed map and population data (PDF; 367 kB) ( Spanish )