Daniel Campos Province
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The Daniel Campos Province is a province in the northwestern part of the department of Potosí in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia. The province is named after the poet Daniel Campos, a native of this region.
Location
The Daniel Campos Province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It lies between 19 ° 25 'and 20 ° 50' south latitude and between 66 ° 49 ' and 68 ° 47 ' west longitude. It is bordered on the north by the department of Oruro, on the west by the Republic of Chile, and on the south and east by the province of Nor Lípez. The province extends about 240 km in east-west direction and 180 km in north-south direction.
Geography
The province is located in a salt flats of the southern Altiplano and is taken about half through the western part of the Salar de Uyuni. The Salar de Uyuni has an average height of 3657 m, on the border with Chile is achieved with the Alto Totoni in the Cordillera Sillaguay a height of 5740 m. The province has an arid high mountain climate, with annual rainfall of less than 200 m in the west even below 100 mm, and average daily temperatures of 0-5 ° C throughout the year.
Population
The population of the province Daniel Campos has risen in the past two decades by about a quarter:
The most important idiom of the province with 80 percent Spanish, 59 percent of the population speak Aymara. The provincial capital is Llica.
87 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 91 percent have no sanitary facilities. 73 percent of the population work in agriculture, 3 percent in mining, 2 percent in industry, 22 percent in services. 87 percent of the population are Catholic, 8 percent Protestant.
Structure
The province is divided into the following two counties ( bolivian: municipios ):
- Municipio Llica - 5,609 inhabitants (Update 2010)
- Municipio Tahua - 5,721 inhabitants