Ángel Sandoval Province
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| Location in Bolivia | |
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| General Data | |
| Capital | San Matías San Matías, Santa Cruz San Matías is a small town in Bolivia.-References:... |
| Area Area Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat... |
32,030 km² |
| Population Population A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals... |
13,073 (2001) |
| Density Density The mass density or density of a material is defined as its mass per unit volume. The symbol most often used for density is ρ . In some cases , density is also defined as its weight per unit volume; although, this quantity is more properly called specific weight... |
0.4 inhabitants/km² (2001) |
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Ángel Sandoval Province 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 eastern parts.
Location
Ángel Sandoval Province is located between 16° 16' and 18° 00' SouthLatitude
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and between 57° 37' and 59° 30' West
Longitude
Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface. It is an angular measurement, usually expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds, and denoted by the Greek letter lambda ....
. It extends over 100-180 km from West to East, and 210 km from North to South.
The province is situated in the Bolivian lowlands and borders Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
in the East and North, José Miguel de Velasco Province
José Miguel de Velasco Province
José Miguel de Velasco or Velasco is a province in the Santa Cruz department of Bolivia. Its capital is San Ignacio de Velasco. The province is named after the Bolivian president José Miguel de Velasco Franco. It was created by law on October 12, 1880, during the presidency of Narciso Campero...
in the Northwest, Chiquitos Province
Chiquitos Province
Chiquitanía is a region of tropical savannas in the Santa Cruz Department in eastern Bolivia."Chiquitos" is the colonial name for what is now essentially five of the six provinces that make up the Chiquitania, a region in Bolivia's Santa Cruz department. "Chiquitos" refers to a region, not a tribe...
in the Southwest, and Germán Busch Province
Germán Busch Province
Germán Busch is a province in the Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia. Most of the surface is covered by the Pantanal, the largest wetland area in the world.-History:...
in the Southeast.
Population
The population of Ángel Sandoval Province has increased by circa 40 % over the recent two decades:- 1992: 10,695 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: 13,073 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: 14,135 inhabitants (est.)
- 2010: 14,719 inhabitants (est.)
46.1 % of the population are younger than 15 years old. (1992)
The literacy
Literacy
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rate of the province increased from 84.4 % (1992) to 89.3 % (2001).
98.4 % 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...
, 2.1 % speak Quechua, 1.5 % 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 other indigenous languages. (1992)
94.1 % of the population are Catholics, 5.3 % are Protestants. (1992)
Division
The province comprises only one municipalityMunicipalities 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...
, San Matías Municipality. It is identical to Ángel Sandoval Province. The province is further subdivided into four canton
Cantons of Bolivia
||On the level below municipalities, Bolivia is divided into cantons ....
s (cantones):
- La Gaiba Canton
- Las Petas Canton
- San Matías Canton
- Santo Corazón Canton