Vallegrande Province

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Valle Grande is a province in the western part of the department of Santa Cruz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location

The province is one of fifteen provinces in the department of Santa Cruz. It is bordered on the north by the province of Manuel María Caballero, on the northwest by the Department of Cochabamba, on the southwest by the Departamento Chuquisaca, on the east by the province of Cordillera, and on the northeast by the province of Florida.

It extends between 18 ° 09 'and 19 ° 11' south latitude and 63 ° 33 'and 64 ° 30 ' west longitude, its length from north to south is 140 km, its width from east to west up to 100 kilometers. It has a size of 6414 square kilometers.

Population

The population of the province of Valle Grande has remained virtually unchanged over the past two decades:

42.0 percent of the population are younger than 15 years.

Languages

99.8 percent of the population speaks Spanish
1.7 percent Quechua
0.2 percent Aymara
0.1 percent Guaraní ( Census 1992)

Religions

93.7 percent of the population are Catholics
4.1 percent are Protestant ( Census 1992)

Others

74.2 percent of the population have no access to electricity
74.7 percent have no sanitary facilities ( census 1992).

Structure

The Valle Grande province is divided into the following five counties ( bolivian: municipios ):

Moro Moro 952 km ² - 3,366 inhabitants (2001)
Postrer Valle 1059 km ² - 2,545 inhabitants
Pucara 619 km ² - 2,548 inhabitants
Trigal 215 km ² - 2,133 inhabitants
Valle Grande 3567 km ² - 16,837 inhabitants

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