Aniceto Arce Province

- 22.2 - 64.516666666667Koordinaten: 22 ° 12 ' S, 64 ° 31 ' W

Aniceto Arce (or short: Arce ) is a province in the southern part of the department of Tarija in the South American Andes State of Bolivia. The province is named after Aniceto Arce Ruiz (1824-1906), Bolivian President from 1888 to 1892.

Location

The Aniceto Arce Province is one of six provinces in the department of Tarija. It lies between 21 ° 45 'and 22 ° 53' south latitude and between 64 ° 06 ' and 65 ° 02 ' west longitude.

It is bordered on the north by the province and the province of Cercado José María Avilés, in the west and southeast to the Argentine Republic, on the east by the province of Gran Chaco, and the north- east by the province Burnet O'Connor.

The province extends over a length of 140 kilometers in north-south direction and 100 km in east-west direction.

Population

The population of the province Aniceto Arce has risen in the past two decades by about a fifth, but stagnated in the last two decades:

80.7 percent of the population speaking Spanish, 8.6 percent Quechua, Aymara 1.0 percent, and 0.2 percent Guaraní.

55.4 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 51.4 percent have no sanitary facilities (1992).

42.1 percent of the working population is employed in agriculture, 0.1 percent in mining, 10.2 percent in industry, 47.6 percent in services ( 2001).

87.4 percent of the population are Catholics, 8.9 percent are Protestant (1992).

Structure

The province is divided into the following two counties ( bolivian: municipios ):

  • Municipio Bermejo
  • Municipio Padcaya
Departamento Tarija Department Administrative centre Cercado Province (Tarija) Argentina Gran Chaco Province Aymara language Roman Catholicism in Bolivia Municipios of Bolivia Beni Department Chuquisaca Department Cochabamba Department La Paz Department (Bolivia) Oruro Department Pando Department Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia)
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