Saucarí Province

Saucarí Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Oruro
Seat	Toledo
surface	1671 km²
Residents	10,149 (2012)
density	6.1 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-O

Coordinates: 18 ° 13 ′  S , 67 ° 23 ′  W

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

location

The Saucarí province is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro department. It lies between 17 ° 50 'and 18 ° 47' south latitude and between 66 ° 47 'and 67 ° 17' west longitude .

It borders in the north and east on the province of Cercado , in the northwest on the province of Nor Carangas , in the west on the province Carangas , in the south on the province Sud Carangas and in the southeast on the province Poopó .

The province extends over 40 kilometers in east-west and over 115 kilometers in north-south direction.

population

The population of the province of Saucarí has ​​almost doubled over the past two decades:

• 1992 : 5,569 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 7,763 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 10,149 inhabitants (census)

The province's most important idioms are Spanish and Aymara , spoken by 84 and 83 percent of the population, respectively, and Quechua by 37 percent. ( 2001 )

82 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 96 percent live without sanitary facilities ( 1992 ).

75.2 percent of the workforce work in agriculture, 2.6 percent in mining, 5.6 percent in industry, 16.6 percent in the service sector ( 2001 ).

83 percent of the population are Catholic, 14 percent are Protestant ( 1992 ).

Further data on the population can be found in the description of the Municipio Toledo .

structure

The province consists of only one municipality :

• Municipio Toledo - 10,149 inhabitants (2012 census)

Localities in the province of Saucarí

• Toledo pop 1462 - Challa Cruz pop 508 - Chuquiña pop 331 - Villa Cruce pop 17

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 Toledo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 654 kB) ( Spanish )