Obispo Santistevan Province
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| Capital | Montero |
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3,673 km² |
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142,786 (2001) |
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38.9 inhabitants/km² (2001) |
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Obispo Santistevan (or: Santiesteban) is one of the fifteen provinces 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 Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz Department
Santa Cruz, with an area of 370,621 km², is the largest of the nine constituent departments of Bolivia. In the 2001 census, it reported a population of 2,029,471. The capital is the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The state is one of the wealthiest states in Bolivia with huge reserves of...
department
Departments of Bolivia
Bolivia is divided into nine departments . Each of the departments is subdivided into provinces , which are further subdivided into municipalities ....
and is situated in the department's western parts. The province was founded on 2 December 1941, and its name honors Obispo Santistevan (1843–1931), famous supporter of the building of Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, commonly known as Santa Cruz, is the capital of the Santa Cruz department in eastern Bolivia and the largest city in the country...
Cathedral.
Location
Obispo Santistevan Province is located between 16° 02' and 17° 24' SouthLatitude
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and between 63° 02' and 64° 15' West
Longitude
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. It extends over a length of 280 km from Northwest to Southeast, and up to 45 km from West to East. The province's border to the neighbouring provinces in the East and Northeast is formed by Río Grande
Río Grande (Bolivia)
The Río Grande in Bolivia rises on the southern slope of the Sierra de Cochabamba, east of the city of Cochabamba, at . At its source it is known as the Río Rocha and crosses the Cochabamba valley basin in a westerly direction...
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The province is situated in the Bolivian lowlands and borders Ichilo Province
Ichilo Province
Ichilo is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department and is situated in the department's north-western parts. The province was founded by a decree of 8 April 1926 and is named after Río Ichilo which is forming the province border in the West.- Location :Ignacio Warnes...
in the Northwest, Sara Province
Sara Province
Sara is a province in the Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Portachuelo.- Subdivision :The province is divided into three municipalities which are further subdivided into cantons....
in the Southwest, Ignacio Warnes Province
Ignacio Warnes Province
Ignacio Warnes is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department and is situated in the department's central parts. The province name honors Colonel Ignacio Warnes , a military leader in the South American war of independence....
in the Southeast, Ñuflo de Chávez Province
Ñuflo de Chávez Province
Ñuflo de Chávez is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department and is situated in the northern central parts of the department. The name of the province honors the conquistador Ñuflo de Chaves who founded the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Its capital is Concepción...
in the East, and Guarayos Province
Guarayos Province
Guarayos is a province in the northwestern parts of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department.- Location :Guarayos is one of fifteen provinces in the Santa Cruz Department...
in the Northeast.
Population
The population of Obispo Santistevan Province has increased by 75 % over the recent two decades:- 1992: 104,660 inhabitants (censusCensusA census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
) - 2001: 142,786 inhabitants (censusCensusA census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
) - 2005: 161,307 inhabitants (est.)
- 2010: 176,107 inhabitants (est.)
44.7 % of the population are younger than 15 years old. (1992)
98.2 % 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...
, 27.6 % speak Quechua, 1.9 % Aymara
Aymara language
Aymara is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over three million speakers. Aymara, along with Quechua and Spanish, is an official language of Peru and Bolivia...
, and 1.2 speak Guaraní
Guaraní language
Guaraní, specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guaraní , is an indigenous language of South America that belongs to the Tupí–Guaraní subfamily of the Tupian languages. It is one of the official languages of Paraguay , where it is spoken by the majority of the population, and half of...
. (1992)
35.5 % of the population have no access to electricity, 34.2 % have no sanitary facilities. (1992)
86.5 % of the population are Catholics, 9.8 % are Protestants. (1992)
Division
The province comprises three municipiosMunicipalities of Bolivia
Municipalities in Bolivia are administrative divisions of the entire national territory governed by local elections. Municipalities are the third level of administrative divisions, below departments and provinces. Some of the provinces consist of only one municipality...
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- Mineros Municipality - 45,853 inhabitants (2001)
- Montero Municipipality - 80,341 inhabitants (2001)
- General Saavedra Municipality - 16,592 inhabitants (2001)