Sur Lípez Province

Sur Lípez Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Potosí
Seat	San Pablo
surface	22,355 km²
Residents	6835 (2012)
density	0.3 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-P
View of the provincial capital San Pablo de Lípez

Coordinates: 22 ° 8 ′  S , 67 ° 1 ′  W

Sur Lípez (also Sud Lípez ) is a province in the southwestern part of the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The province of Sur Lípez is one of sixteen provinces in the Department of Potosí. It lies between 21 ° 16 'and 22 ° 53' south latitude and between 66 ° 13 'and 68 ° 00' west longitude . It borders in the north and northwest on the province of Nor Lípez , in the west on the province of Enrique Baldivieso , in the southwest and south on the Republic of Chile , in the southeast and east on the Republic of Argentina , and in the northeast on the province of Sur Chichas . The province extends from northeast to southwest and has a total length of 230 kilometers and a mean width of 100 kilometers.

geography

The province has in the southwest part, in the district of Quetena Grande , some lakes and salt lakes , the largest of them with six kilometers in diameter the Laguna Colorada at an altitude of 4278 m.

population

The population of the province of Sur Lípez has increased by more than half in the past two decades:

• 1992 : 4,158 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 4,905 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 6,835 inhabitants (census)

The most important idioms of the province with 88 percent each are in equal parts Quechua and Spanish . The capital of the province is San Pablo de Lípez .

99.4 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 90 percent live without sanitary facilities. 69 percent of the population work in agriculture, 4 percent in mining, 4 percent in industry and 23 percent in services. 86 percent of the population are Catholic, 9 percent Protestant.

structure

The province is divided into the following three districts ( Bolivian : Municipios ):

• 05-1001 Municipio San Pablo de Lípez - 3,371 inhabitants ( 2012 census )
• 05-1002 Municipio Mojinete - 1,180 inhabitants
• 05-1003 Municipio San Antonio de Esmoruco - 2.284 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Sur Lípez

• Municipio of San Pablo de Lípez
  • Quetena Chico pop. 686 - Polulos pop. 339 - Cerrillos pop. 311 - San Antonio de Lípez pop. 268 - Quetena Grande pop. 237 - Río San Pablo pop. 227 - San Pablo de Lípez pop.

• Municipio Mojinete
  • Mojinete 409 pop - La Cienega 223 pop - Casa Grande 201 pop - Casa Pintada 183 pop - Bonete Palca 60 pop - Pueblo Viejo 52 pop.

• Municipio of San Antonio de Esmoruco
  • San Antonio de Esmoruco 993 pop - Río Mojon 579 pop - Guadalupe 304 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

• Panoramic photos from the province
• Potosí Department - Social data (PDF 5.36 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Mojinete - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.09 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio San Antonio - detailed map and population data (PDF; 734 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio San Pablo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.55 MB) ( Spanish )