Tomas Barrón Province

Tomas Barrón Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Oruro
Seat	Eucaliptus
surface	356 km²
Residents	5267 (2012)
density	15 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-O

Coordinates: 17 ° 37 ′  S , 67 ° 27 ′  W

Tomas Barrón is a province in the northern part of the Oruro department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The Tomas Barrón Province is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department. It lies between 17 ° 31 'and 17 ° 44' south latitude and between 67 ° 20 'and 67 ° 34' west longitude . It is bordered by the La Paz department to the north and west and the province of Cercado to the south and east .

The province extends over 25 kilometers in east-west and over 30 kilometers in north-south direction. The province comprises only nine localities, the central place is the rural town of Eucaliptus with 2,626 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) on the north-western edge of the province.

population

The population of the province of Tomas Barrón has increased only marginally in the past two decades:

• 1992 : 5,045 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 5,424 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 5,267 inhabitants (census)

The main idioms of the province are Spanish and Aymara , spoken by 87 percent and 82 percent of the population, respectively; 8 percent of the population speak Quechua . 48 percent of the population is younger than 15 years. ( 2001 )

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

49 percent of the working population work in agriculture, 1 percent in mining, 11 percent in industry, 39 percent in the service sector ( 2001 ).

66 percent of the population are Catholic, 27 percent are Protestant ( 1992 ).

structure

The province consists of only one municipality :

• Municipio Eucaliptus - 5,267 inhabitants (2012 census)

Localities in the province of Tomas Barrón

• Eucaliptus 2626 pop - Quelcata 762 pop - Alcamarca 508 pop - Amachuma 496 pop.

Individual evidence

1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
2. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2001
3. ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 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 Eucaliptus - detailed map and population data (PDF; 226 kB) ( Spanish )