Cercado is a

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

in the central parts of the

Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center , flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p ...

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Tarija Tarija or San Bernardo de la Frontera de Tarixa is a city in southern Bolivia. Founded in 1574, Tarija is the largest city and capital and municipality within the Tarija Department, with an airport (Capitán Oriel Lea Plaza Airport, (TJA)) offe ...

Location

''Cercado'' province is one of six provinces in the Tarija Department. It is located between 21° 15' and 21° 51'

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and between 64° 20' and 65° 00'

west West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sunset, Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic languages, German ...

. The province borders

Eustaquio Méndez Province Eustaquio Méndez is a province in the north-western parts of the Bolivian department of Tarija. Location ''Eustaquio Méndez'' province is one of six provinces in the Tarija Department. It is located between 20° 57' and 21° 36' south and betwe ...

in the northwest,

José María Avilés Province José María Avilés (or: ''Avilez'') is a province in the western parts of the Bolivian department of Tarija. Location ''Avilés'' province is one of six provinces in the Tarija Department. It is located between 21° 28' and 22° 05' south and ...

in the south-west,

Aniceto Arce Province Aniceto Arce (or short: ''Arce'') is a province in the southern parts of the Bolivian department Tarija. The province is named after Aniceto Arce Ruiz (1824-1906), President of Bolivia from 1888 until 1892. Location ''Aniceto Arce'' province i ...

in the south, and

Burnet O'Connor Province Burdett O'Connor is a province in the northern part of Tarija Department in Bolivia. The province is also known as Burdett O'Connor and is named after Francisco Burdett O'Connor, a chronicler of the South American War of Independence and the ma ...

in the east. The province extends over 80 km from north to south, and 80 km from east to west.

Population

Main

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of the province is

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, spoken by 99.4%, and 0.6%

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. The population increased from 108,241 inhabitants (1992

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) to 153,457 (2001 census), an increase of 41.8%. - 39.4% of the population are younger than 15 years old. In the census 2012 the population increased to 205,346 inhabitants, migration mainly driven by gas extraction boom of the region. 26.0% of the population have no access to

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, 39.4% have no sanitary facilities (1992). 12.2% of the population are employed in

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

, 0.1% in

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...

, 11.5% in

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, 76.2% in general services (2001). 89.6% of the population are

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, 6.3% are

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(1992).

Division

In contrast to the neighbouring provinces, the province comprises only one

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Tarija Municipality. It is identical to the Cercado Province.

Places of interest

* Cordillera de Sama Biological Reserve

External links

General map of provincePopulation data (Spanish)
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