Sebastián Pagador Province

- 19.2 - 66.216666666667Koordinaten: 19 ° 12 ' S, 66 ° 13' W

Sebastián Pagador is a province in the southeastern part of the Oruro Department in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia. The province takes its name in honor of the freedom fighter Sebastián Pagador who has lost his life in the department of Oruro.

Location

The Sebastian Pagador province is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department. It lies between 18 ° 55 'and 19 ° 30' south latitude and between 65 ° 49 ' and 66 ° 37 ' west longitude.

It borders to the north-east and north to the northern part of the province Eduardo Avaroa, on the northwest by the province and the province of Sud Carangas Ladislao Cabrera, in the southwest on the southern part of the province Eduardo Avaroa, and to the southeast by the Potosí Department.

The province extends over 100 km from east to west and about 50 km in north-south direction.

Population

The population of the province Sebastián Pagador has risen in the past two decades by more than two-thirds:

Most important idioms of the province are about the same extent Spanish, Aymara and Quechua, spoken by 74 percent each, 73 percent or 63 percent of the population. 43.6 percent of the population are younger than 15 years.

75 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 95 percent have no sanitary facilities (1992).

74.1 percent of the working population is employed in agriculture, 0.2 percent in mining, 7.9 percent in industry, 17.8 percent in the service sector ( 2001).

84 percent of the population is Catholic, 14 percent are Protestant (1992).

More population data can be found in the description of the municipality of Santiago de Huari (see below)

Structure

The province consists of only one district ( bolivian: Municipio):

• The municipality of Santiago de Huari - 13,153 inhabitants ( census 2012)