José María Linares Province

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José María Linares is a province in the eastern part of the department of Potosí in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location

The José María Linares Province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It lies between 19 ° 30 'and 20 ° 16' south latitude and between 64 ° 43 ' and 65 ° 53 ' west longitude. It is bordered on the north by the province of Cornelio Saavedra, in the northwest of the province of Tomás Frías, on the west by the province Antonio Quijarro, to the south by the province of Nor chichas, and on the east by the department of Chuquisaca. The province extends about 120 km in east-west direction and 85 km in north-south direction.

Population

The population of the province José María Linares has decreased slightly over the past two decades:

The most important idiom of the province with 80 percent Quechua, 44 percent of the population speaks Spanish. The provincial capital is Pune.

90 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 89 percent have no sanitary facilities. 69 percent of the population work in agriculture, 0.5 percent in mining, 11 percent in industry, 20 percent in services. 88 percent of the population is Catholic, 10 percent Protestant.

Structure

The province is subdivided into three counties ( bolivian: municipios ):

• Municipio Caiza "D" - 9.482 inhabitants (Update 2010)
• Municipio Puna - about 20,000 inhabitants (Update 2010)
• Municipio Ckochas - 20,973 (2008)