Saucarí Province

- 18.216666666667 - 67.033333333333Koordinaten: 18 ° 13 ' S, 67 ° 2' W

Saucarí is a province in the central part of the Oruro Department in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location

The Saucarí province is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department. It lies between 17 ° 50 'and 18 ° 47' south latitude and between 66 ° 47 ' and 67 ° 17' west longitude.

It is bordered to the north and east by the province of Cercado, on the northwest by the province of Nor Carangas, on the west by the province Carangas, to the south by the province of Sud Carangas, and to the southeast by the provincial Poopó.

The province extends over 40 kilometers from east to west and over 115 kilometers in north-south direction.

Population

The population of the province Saucarí has risen in the past two decades to nearly twice:

Most important idioms of the province are Spanish and Aymara, spoken by 84 or 83 percent of the population, Quechua of 37 percent.

82 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 96 percent have no sanitary facilities (1992).

75.2 percent of the working population is employed in agriculture, 2.6 percent in mining, 5.6 percent in industry, 16.6 percent in the service sector ( 2001).

83 percent of the population is Catholic, 14 percent are Protestant (1992).

Further data on the population can be found in the description of the municipality of Toledo.

Structure

The province consists of only a single county ( bolivian: Municipio):

• The municipality of Toledo - 10,524 inhabitants (Update 2010)