Departments of Bolivia

Bolivia is divided into nine departments. Each department is headed by a prefect ( Prefecto ), which was previously appointed and dismissed by the President, is since 2005 but elected as a concession to autonomy aspirations of the people. The departments are in turn in a total of 112 provinces ( provincias ), and these in turn subdivided into 339 municipios.

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