South Yungas Province

South Yungas Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	La Paz
Seat	Chulumani
surface	5770 km²
Residents	105,013 (2012)
density	18 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-L

Coordinates: 16 ° 0 ′  S , 67 ° 5 ′  W

Sud Yungas ("South Yungas") is one of twenty provinces of the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia and is located in the eastern part of the department.

location

The province lies on the eastern slopes of the Bolivian Cordillera Real and borders in the east with the departments of Cochabamba and the department Beni , in the north with the province Franz Tamayo , in the west with the province Larecaja , the province Caranavi and the province Nor Yungas , in the southwest the province of Murillo , to the south to the province of Loayza , and to the southeast to the province of Inquisivi .

The province extends between about 14 ° 54 'and 16 ° 42' south latitude and 66 ° 48 'and 67 ° 58' west longitude, it measures 200 kilometers from north to south and 75 kilometers from west to east.

population

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

year	Residents	source
1992	51 930	census
2001	63 639	census
2012	105 013	census

The province's literacy rate is 88.9 percent, 93.4 percent for men and 83.6 percent for women.

The infant mortality rate is 7.2 percent (1992) to 6.8 percent (2001) declined.

88.2 percent of the population speak Spanish , 57.9 percent speak Aymara , and 4.3 percent speak Quechua . (2001)

66.4 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 59.6 percent live without sanitary facilities (2001) .

80.2 percent of the households have a radio, 22.5 percent a television, 19.4 percent a bicycle, 3.1 percent a motorcycle, 3.7 percent a car, 9.1 percent a refrigerator, 0.9 percent one Phone. (2001)

77.1 percent of the population are Catholic , 15.4 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

The Sud Yungas province was divided into the following five municipalities in the 2012 census :

• 02-1101 Municipio Chulumani - 17,694 inhabitants
• 02-1102 Municipio Irupana - 17,276 inhabitants
• 02-1103 Municipio Yanacachi - 6,302 inhabitants
• 02-1104 Municipio Palos Blancos - 24,636 inhabitants
• 02-1105 Municipio La Asunta - 39,105 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Sud Yungas

• Municipio Chulumani
  • Chulumani 2028 pop - Huancané 922 pop - Colpar 677 pop - Naranjani 666 pop - Tajma 589 pop - Villa Remedios 567 pop - Río Blanco 510 pop - Palma Pampa 484 pop - Cutusuma 416 pop - Huancapampa 331 Pop - Ocobaya 327 Pop - Pasto Pata 259 Pop - Chirca 126 Pop.

• Municipio Irupana
  • Irupana 1949 pop - Chicaloma 768 pop - Bolsa Negra 699 pop - Lambate 598 pop - Santa Rosa 517 pop - La Plazuela 251 pop - Taca 180 pop - Laza 158 pop - Victorio Lanza 76 pop

• Municipio Yanacachi
  • La Chojlla 1573 pop - Suiqui Milamilani 491 pop - Yanacachi 314 pop - Puente Villa 157 pop - Villa Aspiazu 144 pop - Unduavi 80 pop.

• Municipio Palos Blancos
  • Palos Blancos pop 5478 - Sapecho pop 843 - Santa Ana de Mosetenes pop 721 - Inicua pop 711 - Covendo pop 591 - Popoy pop 558 - Villa Concepción pop 542 - Tucupi pop 514 - San Miguel de Huachi 505 Pop. - San José 500 pop - Puerto Carmen 373 pop.

• Municipio La Asunta
  • La Asunta 2143 pop - La Calzada 1200 pop - Las Mercedes 1119 pop - Siguani Grande 1023 pop - Copalani 711 pop - Calizaya 676 pop - Santa Rosa 672 pop - Santiago Tocoroni 647 pop - Yanamayu 644 pop - Diez de Febrero pop 543 - Charia 523 pop - La Asunta - Villa Esperanza pop 517 - Colopampa Grande pop 471 - Huayabal pop 396 - Cotapata pop 308 - El Palmar pop 307 - Charoplaya pop 234 - Puerto Rico 269 ​​pop - Chamaca 205 pop - Charobamba 133 pop - Villa Barrientos 74 pop.

Individual evidence

1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
3. ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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

• Relief map of the Inquisivi region 1: 250: 000 (PDF; 7.8 MB)
• La Paz Department - Social data (PDF 11.91 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Chulumani - detailed map and population data (PDF; 361 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Irupana - detailed map and population data (PDF; 687 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio La Asunta - detailed map and population data (PDF; 841 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Palos Blancos - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.35 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Yanacachi - detailed map and population data (PDF; 422 kB) ( Spanish )