Nor Chichas is a province

Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...

 in the Eastern parts of the Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

n Potosí Department

Potosí Department

Potosí Department is a department in southwestern Bolivia. It comprises 118,218 km² with 709,013 inhabitants . The capital is the city of Potosí....

. Its seat is Cotagaita

Cotagaita

Cotagaita is a small town in Bolivia. In 2009 it had an estimated population of 1904.-References:...

.

Location

Nor Chichas province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It is located between 20° 01' and 21° 08' South

Latitude

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 and between 65° 13' and 66° 17' West

Longitude

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. It borders José María Linares Province

José María Linares Province

José María Linares is a province in the eastern parts of the Bolivian department of Potosí. Its capital is Puna.-Location:José María Linares province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It is located between 19° 30' and 20° 16' South and between 64° 43' and 65° 53' West...

 in the north, Antonio Quijarro Province

Antonio Quijarro Province

Antonio Quijarro is a province in the central parts of the Bolivian Potosí Department situated at the Salar de Uyuni. Its seat is Uyuni.-Location:Antonio Quijarro province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department...

 in the west, Sud Chichas Province

Sud Chichas Province

Sud Chichas is a province in the Bolivian department of Potosí. Its seat is Tupiza.-Location:Sud Chichas province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It is located between 20° 51' and 21° 50' South and between 65° 15' and 66° 30' West...

 in the south, and Chuquisaca Department

Chuquisaca Department

Chuquisaca is a department of Bolivia located in the center south. It borders on the departments of Cochabamba, Tarija, Potosí, and Santa Cruz. The departmental capital is Sucre, which is also the constitutional capital of Bolivia.-Geography:...

 in the east. The province extends over 120 km from east to west and 140 km from north to south.

Division

The province comprises two municipalities

Municipalities of Bolivia

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 which are further subdivided into cantons

Cantons of Bolivia

||On the level below municipalities, Bolivia is divided into cantons ....

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Section	Municipality	Seat
1st	Cotagaita Municipality	Cotagaita Cotagaita Cotagaita is a small town in Bolivia. In 2009 it had an estimated population of 1904.-References:...
2nd	Vitichi Municipality Vitichi Municipality Vitichi Municipality is the second municipal section of the Nor Chichas Province in the Potosí Department in Bolivia. Its seat is Vitichi.- Subdivision :The municipality consists of the following cantons:* Ara* Calcha* Vitichi* Yawisla- The people :...	Vitichi Vitichi Vitichi is a location in the Potosí Department in Bolivia. It is the capital of the Vitichi Municipality, the second municipal section of the Nor Chichas Province.-References:...

Population

The main language of the province is Quechua

Quechua languages

Quechua is a Native South American language family and dialect cluster spoken primarily in the Andes of South America, derived from an original common ancestor language, Proto-Quechua. It is the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of probably...

, spoken by 99.5 %, while 69 % of the population speak Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

. The population dropped from 38,250 inhabitants (1992 census) to 35,323 (2001 census), a decrease of 17 %.

92 % of the population have no access to electricity, 87 % have no sanitary facilities. 73 % of the population are employed in agriculture, 4.5 % in mining, 4 % in industry, 18.5 % in general services. 79 % of the population are Catholics, 17 % Protestants. 55 % of the population are female.

The people are predominantly indigenous

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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 citizens of Quechua descent.

Ethnic group	Cotagaita Municipality (%)	Vitichi Municipality (%)
Quechua	89.2	90.4
Aymara	0.7	0.2
Guaraní, Chiquitos Chiquitos Chiquitos means "little ones" in Spanish. The Spanish Conquistadores chose this name for the people living in the rain savannas of what is now the eastern parts of the Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia, when they found the small doors of the Indian huts in the region.Today, this area is called Gran... , Moxos Moxos people The Moxos, also known as the Mojos, are an indigenous people living around the head-waters of the Madeira River in northern Bolivia, particularly on both banks of the Mamore River. They submitted to Inca domination, but in 1564 gallantly repulsed the Spaniards. A century later, however, the Jesuits...	0.1	0.0
Not indigenous Indigenous peoples of the Americas The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...	9.4	9.3
Other indigenous groups	0.6	0.1