Cornelio Saavedra Province
- 19.466666666667 - 65.333333333333Koordinaten: 19 ° 28 ' S, 65 ° 20 ' W
Cornelio Saavedra is a province in the northeastern part of the department of Potosí in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia. The province is named after Cornelio Saavedra, president of the first independent Argentine Government (" Primera Junta " ) of 1810, who was born in the district in the municipality of Betanzos Otuyo.
Location
The Cornelio Saavedra province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It lies between 18 ° 57 'and 19 ° 44' south latitude and between 64 ° 48 ' and 65 ° 39 ' west longitude. It is bordered on the northeast by the department of Chuquisaca, in the north of the province Chayanta, on the west by the province of Tomás Frías, and to the south and southeast to the province José María Linares. The province extends about 95 km in east-west direction and 105 km in north-south direction.
Population
The number of inhabitants in the province of Cornelio Saavedra has risen in the past two decades only to a small extent:
The most important idiom of the province with 78 percent Quechua. The provincial capital is Betanzos with 5,021 inhabitants ( 2006).
80 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 94 percent have no sanitary facilities. 69 percent of the population work in agriculture, 1 percent in mining, 10 percent in industry, 20 percent in services. 89 percent of the population are Catholic, 8 percent Protestant.
Structure
The province is subdivided into three counties ( bolivian: municipios ):
- Municipality of Betanzos - 33,455 inhabitants ( census 2012)
- Municipio Chaqui - 9,910 inhabitants
- Municipio Tacobamba - 11,735 inhabitants