Enrique Baldivieso Province

- 21.466666666667 - 67.466666666667Koordinaten: 21 ° 28 ' S, 67 ° 28 ' W

Enrique Baldivieso (also: Enrique Valdivieso ) is a province in the southwest part of the department of Potosí in the southern part of the South American country of Bolivia. She bears her name in honor of the politician Enrique Baldivieso, who was in 1938 and 1939 Bolivian Vice President over the years.

Location

The Enrique Baldivieso province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It lies between 21 ° 03 'and 21 ° 51' south latitude and between 67 ° 07 ' and 67 ° 48 ' west longitude. It is almost completely surrounded on the east, north, west and south of the province of Nor Lípez, only in the southeast it borders on a stretch of about twenty kilometers to the provincial Sur Lípez. The province extends over a total distance of about 120 kilometers from northwest to southeast and has an average width of 35 kilometers.

The provincial capital is San Agustín on the northern edge of the province.

Population

The population of the province Baldivieso has increased over the past two decades by about a third, especially in the last decade of the last millennium:

The most important idiom of the province with 96 percent Quechua, 86 percent of the population speaks Spanish. 46.5 percent of the population are younger than 15 years old.

99.7 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 99 percent have no sanitary facilities. 72 percent of the population work in agriculture, 28 percent in services. 95 percent of the population are Catholic, 2 percent Protestant.

Structure

The province consists only of a county ( municipio ) of San Agustín, which is divided into four cantons ( cantones ):

• Canton Alota ( central place: Alota )
• Canton of Cerro Gordo ( central Location: Cerro Gordo )
• Canton of San Agustín ( central Location: San Agustín )
• Canton Todos Santos ( central Location: Todos Santos)