Aroma Province
Aroma is ane o the twinty provinces o the Bolivie La Paz Depairtment an is situatit in the depairtment's soothren pairts.
Aroma | |
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Province | |
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 Location o Aroma Province athin Bolivie | |
 Provinces o the La Paz Depairtment | |
| Coordinates: 17°20′0″S 67°50′0″W / 17.33333°S 67.83333°W | |
| Kintra |  Bolivie |
| Depairtment | La Paz Depairtment |
| Caipital | Sica Sica |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4510 km2 (1,740 sq mi) |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 86,480 |
| • Density | 19.2/km2 (50/sq mi) |
| • Ethnicities | Aymara |
Location
eeditAroma province is locatit atween 16° 43' an 17° 35' sooth an atween 67° 22' an 68° 23' Wast. It extends ower 120 km frae northwast tae sootheast, an up tae 55 km frae northeast tae soothwast.
The province is situatit on the Bolivie Altiplano sootheast o Lake Titicaca an borders Ingavi Province in the northwast, Pacajes Province in the wast, Gualberto Villarroel Province in the sooth, Oruro Depairtment in the sootheast, Loayza Province in the east, an Pedro Domingo Murillo Province in the north.
Population
eeditThe population o Aroma Province haes increased bi 80% ower the recent twa decades:
- 1992: 65,730 inhabitants (census)
- 2001: 86,480 inhabitants (census)
- 2005: 99,162 inhabitants (est.)[1]
- 2010: 110,418 inhabitants (est.)[2]
45.1% o the population are younger than 15 year auld. (1992)
79.9% o the population speak Spaingie, 93.9% speak Aymara, an 6.7% Quechua. (2001)
The leeteracy rate o the province's population is 78.4%. (1992)
82.1% o the population hae nae access tae electricity, 88.0% hae nae sanitary facilities. (1992)
69.2% o the population are Catholics, 25.5% are Protestants. (1992)
Diveesion
eeditThe province comprises seiven municipios which are further subdividit intae cantons.
| Section | Municipality | Inhabitants (2001)[3] | Seat | Inhabitants (2001)[3] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Sica Sica Municipality | 26,818 | Sica Sica | 3,831 |
| 2nd | Umala Municipality | 9,583 | Umala | 152 |
| 3rd | Ayo Ayo Municipality | 6,981 | Ayo Ayo | 647 |
| 4th | Calamarca Municipality | 12,112 | Calamarca | 943 |
| 5th | Patacamaya Municipality | 20,039 | Patacamaya | 8,414 |
| 6th | Colquencha Municipality | 8,020 | Colquencha | 2,352 |
| 7th | Collana Municipality | 2,927 | Collana | 1,936 |
References
eedit- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Archived 2007-08-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística - Proyecciones Archived 2008-09-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ a b National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia Archived 2009-10-27 at the Wayback Machine (in Spaingie)
Freemit airtins
eedit- General map o province Archived 2008-11-21 at the Wayback Machine
- Detailed map o province touns an rivers Archived 2009-04-18 at the Wayback Machine
- Population data (Spaingie) Archived 2008-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
- Social data (Spaingie) Archived 2008-10-09 at the Wayback Machine