Modesto Omiste Province
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Modesto Omiste is a province in the southeastern part of the department of Potosí in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location
The Modesto Omiste province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It lies between 21 ° 39 'and 22 ° 06' south latitude and between 65 ° 10 ' and 66 ° 08 ' west longitude. It is bordered on the north by the province chichas Sur, on the east by the department of Tarija, and to the south and southwest by the Republic of Argentina. The province extends about 120 km in east-west direction and 65 km in north-south direction.
Population
The population of the province Modesto Omiste has risen in the past two decades by more than a third:
The most important idiom of the province with 97 percent Spanish, 44 percent of the population speak Quechua. The provincial capital is Villazón.
44 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 54 percent have no sanitary facilities. 18 percent of the population work in agriculture, 11 percent in industry, 71 percent in services. 84 percent of the population is Catholic, 11 percent Protestant. ( As of 2001)
Structure
The province consists of only one district ( bolivian: Municipio), the municipality of Villazón, which is divided into thirteen cantons ( cantones ):
- Canton Berque
- Canton Casira
- Canton Chagua
- Canton Chipihuayco
- Canton Mojo
- Canton Moraya
- Canton Sagnasti
- Canton Salitre
- Canton of San Pedro de Sococha
- Canton Sarcari
- Canton Sococha
- Canton Villazon
- Canton Yuruma