Tomás Frías Province

Tomás Frías Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Potosí
Seat	Potosí
surface	3420 km²
Residents	229,047 (2012)
density	67 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-P
View over Potosí to Cerro Rico

Coordinates: 19 ° 26 ′  S , 65 ° 56 ′  W

Tomás Frías is a province in the northern part of the Potosí department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia . The province is named after the former president (1872/73) Tomás Frías Ametller . The capital of the province is Potosí with 174,973 inhabitants. ( 2012 )

location

The Tomás Frías Province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It extends between 19 ° 00 'and 19 ° 50' south latitude and between 65 ° 32 'and 66 ° 24' west longitude . It borders in the northwest on the Oruro department , in the southwest on the province Antonio Quijarro , in the south on the province José María Linares , in the east on the province Cornelio Saavedra , in the north on the province Chayanta .

population

The population of Tomás Frías province has increased by around half in the past two decades:

• 1992 : 147,111 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 176,922 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 229,047 inhabitants (census)

structure

The province is divided into the following four municipalities :

• 05-0101 Municipio Potosí - 189,652 inhabitants ( 2012 census )
• 05-0102 Municipio Tinguipaya - 27,200 inhabitants
• 05-0103 Municipio Yocalla - 9,436 inhabitants
• 05-0104 Municipio Urmiri - 2.759 inhabitants

Localities in the province of Tomás Frías

• Municipio Potosí
  • Potosí pop. 174,973 - Huari Huari pop 915 - Karachipampa pop 798 - Chaquilla Alta pop 613 - Santiago de Ockoruro pop 477 - Jesús de Machaca pop 444 - Manquiri pop 420 - Agua Dulce pop 257 - San Andrés de Machaca 217 pop - Chiltera Grande 161 pop - Tarapaya 96 pop

• Municipio Tinguipaya
  • Anthura 1,164 pop - Jachacawa 646 pop - Tinguipaya 628 pop - Challa Mayu 152 pop

• Municipio Yocalla
  • San Antonio 605 pop - Yocalla 578 pop - Cayara 575 pop - Totora Pampa 556 pop - Luquiapu 406 pop .

• Municipio Urmiri
  • Urmiri 839 pop - Vacuyo Andamarca 554 pop - Cahuayo 472 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

• Potosí Department - Social data (PDF 5.36 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Potosí - detailed map and population data (PDF; 722 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Tinguipaya - detailed map and population data (PDF; 656 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Urmiri - detailed map and population data (PDF; 612 kB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Yocalla - detailed map and population data (PDF; 463 kB) ( Spanish )