Yacuma Province

Yacuma Province
Basic data
Country	Bolivia
Department	Beni
Seat	Santa Ana del Yacuma
surface	45,946 km²
Residents	24,398 (2012)
density	0.5 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BOB
Río Yacuma

Coordinates: 13 ° 35 ′  S , 65 ° 55 ′  W

Yacuma is a province in the central part of the Beni department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

The province is one of eight provinces in the Beni department. It borders the province of Ballivián to the west, the province of Moxos to the south, the province of Cercado to the southeast , the province of Mamoré to the east , and the province of Vaca Díez to the north .

The province extends approximately between 12 ° 00 'and 15 ° 28' south latitude and 65 ° 00 'and 66 ° 37' west longitude, its extent from west to east is up to 110 kilometers, from north to south 285 kilometers.

population

The population of Yacuma Province has decreased slightly over the past two decades:

• 1992 : 25,068 inhabitants ( census )
• 2001 : 27,901 inhabitants (census)
• 2012 : 24,398 inhabitants (census)

48.8 percent of the population is younger than 15 years, the literacy rate in the province is 80.4 percent.

98.7 percent of the population speak Spanish , 1.8 percent Quechua , 1.1 percent Aymara , and 10.3 percent other indigenous languages. (1992)

60.7 percent of the population have no access to electricity , 38.4 percent live without sanitary facilities (1992) .

84.2 percent of the population are Catholic , 12.2 percent are Protestant (1992) .

structure

The province of Yacuma was divided into the following two Municipios (districts) at the 2012 census :

• 08-0401 Municipio Santa Ana del Yacuma (20,897 km²) in the southern part of the province - 18,036 inhabitants - 0.86 inhabitants / km²
• 08-0402 Municipio Exaltación (25,049 km²) in the northern part of the province - 6,362 inhabitants - 0.25 inhabitants / km²

Localities in the province of Yacuma

• Municipio Santa Ana del Yacuma
  • Santa Ana del Yacuma 12,178 pop - El Perú 1005 pop - San José del Cabitu 432 pop - Totaizal 267 pop.

• Municipio Exaltación
  • Exaltación 1425 pop - Coquinal 935 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. 

Web links

• Beni Department - Provincial social data ( Spanish ) (PDF 3.92 MB)
• Municipio Santa Ana del Yacuma - detailed map and population data (PDF; 2.44 MB) ( Spanish )
• Municipio Exaltación - detailed map and population data (PDF; 2.2 MB) ( Spanish )