Sud Carangas Province

Sud Carangas Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Oruro
Seat	Andamarca (Oruro)
surface	3536 km²
Residents	7231 (2012)
density	2 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-O

Coordinates: 18 ° 53 ′  S , 67 ° 30 ′  W

Sud Carangas (also: Sur Carangas ) is a province in the central part of the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The Sud Carangas Province is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department. It lies between 18 ° 38 'and 19 ° 09' south latitude and between 66 ° 37 'and 67 ° 34' west longitude .

It borders in the north on the province of Saucarí , in the north-west on the province of Carangas , in the west on the province Litoral , in the south on the province Ladislao Cabrera , in the south-east on the province Sebastián Pagador , in the east on the province Eduardo Avaroa and in the north-east the province of Poopó . To the east, the province borders on Lake Poopó .

The province extends over a length of 60 kilometers in a north-south direction and over 100 kilometers in an east-west direction.

population

The population of the province of Sud Carangas has almost doubled over the past two decades:

• 1992 : 4,028 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 6,136 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 7,231 inhabitants (census)

41.1 percent of the population are younger than 15 years. 96.5 percent of the population speak Aymara , 78.1 percent Spanish, and 46.0 percent Quechua .

99.9 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 98.7 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992).

77.9 percent of the working population work in agriculture, 4.1 percent in industry, 18.0 percent in the service sector (2001).

74.8 percent of the population are Catholic, 18.9 percent are Protestant (1992).

structure

The province is divided into the following two municipalities :

• Municipio Andamarca - 6,794 inhabitants (2010 update)
• Municipio Belén de Andamarca - 2.265 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Sud Carangas

• Municipio Andamarca
  • Orinoca pop. 638 - Andamarca pop. 468 - Eduardo Avaroa pop. 374 - Isallavi pop .

• Municipio Belén de Andamarca
  • Belén de Andamarca 639 pop - Cruz de Huayllamarca 388 pop - Real Machacamarca 315 pop

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GEOHive according to: Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2013

Web links

• Departamento Oruro - social data (PDF 6.01 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Andamarca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 455 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Belén de Andamarca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 326 kB) ( Spanish )