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'Ladislao Cabrera'

Location in Bolivia
Main Data
Capital	Salinas de Garcí Mendoza
Area	6,554 km²
Population	11,698 ''(2001)''
Density	1.8 inhabitants/km² ''(2001)''
ISO 3166-2	BO.OR.LC

'Ladislao Cabrera' is a province in the southern parts of the Bolivian department of Oruro.

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Location

Population

Division

Weblinks

Location

''Ladislao Cabrera'' province is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department. It is located between 19° 02' and 19° 56' South and between 66° 35' and 67° 43' West.
The province borders Sud Carangas Province in the North, Atahuallpa Province in the West, Potosí Department in the South, Eduardo Avaroa Province in the East, and Sebastián Pagador Province in the Northeast.
The province extends over 100 km from North to South, and 125 km from East to West.

Population

Main idiom of the province is Aymara, spoken by 90.5 %, while 86.4 % of the population speak Spanish and 19.7 % Quechua.
The population increased from 7,363 inhabitants (1992 census) to 11,698 (2001 census), an increase of 59 %. - 42.5 % of the population are younger than 15 years old.
99.9 % of the population have no access to electricity, 90.0 % have no sanitary facilities.
82.4 % of the population are employed in agriculture, 0.1 % in mining, 1.8 % in industry, 15.7 % in general services (2001).
85.4 % of the population are Catholics, 10.2 % are Protestants (1992).

Division

The province comprises two municipios:

★ Pampa Aullagas

★ Salinas de Garcí Mendoza

Weblinks

★ General map of province

★ Detailed map of province towns and rivers

★ Population data (Spanish)