Bautista Saavedra Province

-15 - 68.75Koordinaten: 15 ° 0 ' S, 68 ° 45 ' W

Bautista Saavedra is one of twenty provinces in the northwestern part of the Bolivian department of La Paz you bears her name in honor of Bautista Saavedra Mallea (1870-1939), Bolivian State President 1920 until 1925.

Location

The province is located on the Bolivian Altiplano northeast of Lake Titicaca and is bordered to the north-east to north-west by the province of Franz Tamayo, on the west by the Republic of Peru, to the southwest by the province of Heliodorus Camacho, and to the southeast by the Muñecas province and the province Larecaja.

The province extends from about 14 ° 45 'and 15 ° 20' south latitude and 68 ° 18 ' and 69 ° 12' west longitude, from north to south it measures up to 65 kilometers from west to east up to 90 kilometers.

Population

The population of the Province of Bautista Saavedra has risen in the past two decades by about two-thirds:

41.3 % of the population are younger than 15 years. (1992)

The literacy rate in the province is 55.2 %. (1992)

46.6 % of the population speak Spanish, 89.3 % speak Quechua, and Aymara 36.1%. (1992)

94.3 % of the population have no access to electricity, 93.3 % have no sanitary facilities (1992).

89.1 % of the inhabitants are Roman Catholic, 5.7% are Protestant (1992).

Structure

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

  • Municipio Curva - 2,965 inhabitants (Update 2010)
  • Municipio Charazani - 9,886 inhabitants (Update 2010)
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