Aroma is ane o the twinty provinces o the Bolivie La Paz Depairtment an is situatit in the depairtment's soothren pairts.

Aroma
Province
Illimani, as seen frae Collana
Illimani, as seen frae Collana
Location o Aroma Province athin Bolivie
Location o Aroma Province athin Bolivie
Provinces o the La Paz Depairtment
Provinces o the La Paz Depairtment
Coordinates: 17°20′0″S 67°50′0″W / 17.33333°S 67.83333°W / -17.33333; -67.83333
Kintra Bolivie
DepairtmentLa Paz Depairtment
CaipitalSica Sica
Area
 • Total4510 km2 (1,740 sq mi)
Population
 (2001)
 • Total86,480
 • Density19.2/km2 (50/sq mi)
 • Ethnicities
Aymara

Location

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Aroma 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

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The 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

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The 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

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  1. Instituto Nacional de Estadística Archived 2007-08-25 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Instituto Nacional de Estadística - Proyecciones Archived 2008-09-11 at the Wayback Machine
  3. a b National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia Archived 2009-10-27 at the Wayback Machine (in Spaingie)

Freemit airtins

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