Litoral Province (Bolivia)
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Litoral (also: Litoral de Atacama ) is a province in the southwest part of the Oruro Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location
The Litoral province is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department. It lies between 18 ° 32 'and 19 ° 04' south latitude and between 67 ° 29 ' and 68 ° 06 ' west longitude.
It is bordered on the north by the province of Sajama, the west and south by the province of Atahuallpa, to the southeast by the Province Sud Carangas, and in the north- east by the province Carangas.
The province extends over a length of 65 km in a north-south direction and 55 km in east-west direction.
Population
The population of the province of Litoral has risen in the past two decades to the fivefold:
34.5 percent of the population are younger than 15 years. 89.8 percent of the population speak Spanish, 76.0 percent and 13.7 percent Aymara Quechua.
94.5 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 90.5 percent have no sanitary facilities (1992).
78.0 percent of the working population is employed in agriculture, 3.1 percent in industry, 18.9 percent in services ( 2001).
77.6 percent of the population are Catholics, 16.3 percent are Protestant (1992).
Structure
The province is divided into the following five counties ( bolivian: municipios ):
- Municipio de Cruz Machacamarca - 3,278 inhabitants (Update 2010)
- Municipio Escara - 1,407 inhabitants
- Municipio Esmeralda - 1,994 inhabitants
- Municipio Huachacalla - 2,306 inhabitants
- Yunguyo Municipio del Litoral - 437 inhabitants