Nicolás Suárez Province
Nicolás Suárez is ane o the five provinces o the Bolivie Pando depairtment an is situatit in the depairtment's northwastren pairts. Its name honors Nicolás Suárez Callaú (1861-1940) who awned major pairts o the day's Pando an Beni Depairtments in the times o the caoutchouc-boom.
| Location in Bolivie | |
|---|---|
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| General Data | |
| Caipital | Cobija |
| Aurie | 9,819 km² |
| Population | 29,536 (2001) |
| Densitie | 3.0 inhabitants/km² (2001) |
| ISO 3166-2 | BO.PA.NS |
| Pando Depairtment | |
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Location
eeditNicolás Suárez Province is locatit atween 10° 39' an 11° 27' sooth an atween 67° 33' an 69° 34' wast. It extends ower a length of 370 km frae northeast tae soothwast, an up tae 100 km frae north tae sooth.
The province is situatit in the Amazon lawlands o Bolivie an borders Brazil in the north, Peru in the wast, Manuripi Province in the sooth, an Abuná Province in the east.
Population
eeditThe population o Nicolás Suárez Province haes increased bi amaist 200 % ower the recent twa decades:
- 1992: 18,447 inhabitants (census)
- 2001: 29,536 inhabitants (census)
- 2005: 39,577 inhabitants (est.)[1]
- 2010: 51,377 inhabitants (est.)[2]
42.4 % o the population are younger than 15 year auld. (1992)
84.7 % o the population speak Spaingie, 4.9 % speak Quechua, an 3.1 % speak Aymara (1992).
The leeteracy rate o the province's population is 78.1 %. (1992)
51.9 % o the population hae nae access tae electricity, 33.0 % hae nae sanitar facilities. (1992)
83.9 % o the population are Catholics, 13.8 % are Protestants. (1992)
Diveesion
eeditThe province comprises fower municipalities:
- Bella Flor Municipality - 2,305 inhabitants (2001)[3]
- Bolpebra Municipality - 1,194 inhabitants
- Cobija Municipality - 22,324 inhabitants
- Porvenir Municipality - 3,713 inhabitants
See an aw
eeditReferences
eedit- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Archived 2007-08-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística - Proyecciones Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística]
Freemit airtins
eedit- General map o province Archived 2008-10-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Detailed map o province touns an rivers Archived 2008-10-07 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