Sebastián Pagador Province

Sebastián Pagador Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Oruro
Seat	Santiago de Huari
surface	1972 km²
Residents	13,153 (2012)
density	6.7 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-O

Coordinates: 19 ° 12 ′  S , 66 ° 40 ′  W

Sebastián Pagador is a province in the southeastern part of the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia . The province bears its name in honor of the freedom fighter Sebastián Pagador , who lost his life in the Oruro department.

location

The province of Sebastián Pagador is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro department. It lies between 18 ° 55 'and 19 ° 30' south latitude and between 65 ° 49 'and 66 ° 37' west longitude .

It borders in the north-east and north on the northern part of the province of Eduardo Avaroa , in the north-west on the province of Sud Carangas and the province of Ladislao Cabrera , in the south-west on the southern part of the province of Eduardo Avaroa and in the south-east on the Department of Potosí .

The province extends over 100 kilometers in east-west and over 50 kilometers in north-south direction. The central place is the city of Santiago de Huari with 4332 inhabitants on the northwestern edge of the province, only ten kilometers from Lake Poopó .

geography

The province of Sebastián Pagador is located on the eastern edge of the Bolivian Altiplano in front of the Cordillera Azanaques , which is part of the Cordillera Central mountain range . The mean average temperature of the region is 8–9 ° C (see climate diagram Challapata) and fluctuates between 4 ° C in June and July and 11 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is almost 350 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to October with monthly precipitation below 15 mm, and significant precipitation only from December to March with 60 to 80 mm monthly precipitation.

population

The population of the province of Sebastián Pagador has almost doubled over the past two decades:

• 1992 : 7,712 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 10,221 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 13,153 inhabitants (census)

The province's main idioms are roughly equally Spanish , Aymara, and Quechua , spoken by 74 percent, 73 percent and 63 percent of the population, respectively. 43.6 percent of the population are younger than 15 years.

75 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 95 percent live without sanitary facilities ( 1992 ).

74.1 percent of the workforce work in agriculture, 0.2 percent in mining, 7.9 percent in industry, 17.8 percent in the service sector ( 2001 ).

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

Further population data can be found in the description of the Municipio Santiago de Huari (see below)

structure

The province consists of only one municipality :

• Municipio Santiago de Huari - 13,153 inhabitants (2012 census)

Localities in the province of Sebastián Pagador

• Santiago de Huari pop. 4332 - San Pedro de Condo pop 1048 - Lagunillas pop 576 - Urmiri pop 373 - Llapa Llapani pop 331 - Vichajlupe pop 249 - Guadalupe pop 206 - Belén de Challamayo pop 178 - Castilla Huma 109 pop.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
2. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2001
3. ↑ 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 Santiago de Huari - detailed map and population data (PDF; 709 kB) ( Spanish )