Tomina Province
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Country | Bolivia |
Department | Chuquisaca |
Seat | Padilla |
surface | 3947 km² |
Residents | 35,192 (2012 census) |
density | 8.9 inhabitants per km² |
ISO 3166-2 | BO-H |
Coordinates: 19 ° 30 ′ S , 64 ° 15 ′ W
Tomina is a province in the central part of the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
location
The province is one of ten provinces in the Chuquisaca department. It borders in the northwest with the province of Jaime Zudáñez , in the southwest with the province Azurduy , in the south and southeast with the province Hernando Siles , in the east with the province Luis Calvo , in the northeast with the department Santa Cruz , and in the north with the province Belisario Boeto .
The province extends approximately between 18 ° 53 'and 19 ° 50' south latitude and 63 ° 57 'and 64 ° 40' west longitude, its extent from west to east is 75 kilometers, from north to south 110 kilometers.
population
The population of the Tomina province has only increased between 1992 and 2001 over the past two decades, and has since declined again:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | 35 443 | census |
2001 | 37 482 | census |
2012 | 35 192 | census |
47.3 percent of the population is younger than 15 years, the literacy rate in the province is 54.5 percent. (1992)
77.4 percent of the population speak Spanish , 54.0 percent Quechua , and 0.3 percent Aymara . (1992)
86.9 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 92.6 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992) .
95.0 percent of the population are Catholic , 2.5 percent are Protestant (1992) .
structure
The province of Tomina is divided into the following five districts ( Bolivian : Municipios ):
- Municipio Padilla - 10,162 inhabitants (2012)
- Municipio Tomina - 8,435 inhabitants
- Municipio Sopachuy - 7,228 inhabitants
- Municipio Villa Alcalá - 4,902 inhabitants
- Municipio El Villar - 4,465 inhabitants
Localities in the province of Tomina
- Municipio Padilla
- Padilla 3314 pop.
- Municipio Tomina
- Tomina 1523 pop - Fuerte Rua 523 pop - Tarabuquillo 343 pop
- Municipio Villa Alcalá
- Alcalá 1562 pop - Lima Bamba Centro 566 pop
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ 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 Chuquisaca - social data (PDF 4.32 MB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Padilla - detailed map and population data (PDF; 655 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Tomina - detailed map and population data (PDF; 546 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Sopachuy - detailed map and population data (PDF) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Villa Alcalá - detailed map and population data (PDF; 331 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio El Villar - detailed map and population data (PDF) ( Spanish )