Vallegrande Province

Vallegrande Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Santa Cruz
Seat	Vallegrande
surface	6414 km²
Residents	26,576 (2012)
density	4.1 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BO-S

Coordinates: 18 ° 40 ′  S , 64 ° 0 ′  W

Vallegrande is a province in the western part of the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .

location

The province is one of fifteen provinces in the Santa Cruz Department. It borders in the north with the province of Manuel María Caballero , in the northwest with the department Cochabamba , in the southwest with the department Chuquisaca , in the east with the province Cordillera , and in the northeast with the province Florida .

It extends between 18 ° 09 'and 19 ° 11' south latitude and 63 ° 33 'and 64 ° 30' west longitude, its longitude from north to south is 140 kilometers, its latitude from east to west up to 100 kilometers, and it has a size of 6414 square kilometers.

population

The population of the province of Vallegrande has remained almost unchanged over the past two decades:

• 1992 : 26,744 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 27,429 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 26,576 inhabitants (census)

42.0 percent of the population are younger than 15 years.

languages

• 99.8 percent of the population speaks Spanish
• 1.7 percent Quechua
• 0.2 percent Aymara
• 0.1 percent Guaraní (1992 census)

Religions

• 93.7 percent of the population are Catholic
• 4.1 percent are Protestant (1992 census)

Others

• 74.2 percent of the population have no access to electricity
• 74.7 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992 census) .

structure

The province of Vallegrande is divided into the following five districts ( Bolivian : Municipios ):

• 07-0801 Municipio Vallegrande 3,567 km² - 16,837 pop .
• 07-0802 Municipio Trigal 215 km² - 2,133 pop .
• 07-0803 Municipio Moro Moro 952 km² - 3,366 pop .
• 07-0804 Postrer Valle 1,059 km² - 2,545 pop .
• 07-0805 Pucará 619 km² - 2,548 pop .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
2. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (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. 
4. ↑ INE 2012

Web links

• Santa Cruz Department - Provincial Social Data (PDF 5.12 MB) ( Spanish )