Guarayos is a province in the northwestern parts of the
Bolivia
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Santa Cruz Department
Santa Cruz () is the largest of the nine constituent departments of Bolivia, occupying about one-third (33.74%) of the country's territory. With an area of , it is slightly smaller than Japan or the US state of Montana. It is located in the e ...
.
Location
Guarayos is one of fifteen provinces in the Santa Cruz Department. It borders
Beni Department
Beni (), sometimes El Beni, is a northeastern department of Bolivia, in the lowlands region of the country. It is the second-largest department in the country (after Santa Cruz), covering 213,564 square kilometers (82,458 sq mi), and it was cre ...
in the north and northwest,
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 provi ...
and
Obispo Santistevan Province in the southwest, and
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 (1518–1556) who founded th ...
in the south and east.
The Province is situated between 13° 58' and 16° 30' south, and 62° 29' and 64° 44' west, its extension from east to west is up to 320 km, from north to west circa 380 km.
Population
Part of the province is inhabited by an indigenous people, called
Guarayos
The Guarayos are an indigenous group living in their ancestral land in eastern Bolivia. They are located north of the department of Santa Cruz. The current population of the Guarayo group in Bolivia is 12,000. They primarily speak Guarayu, and 7 ...
. The current indigenous inhabitants seem to have settled here beginning with the 16th century. The province's population went up from 17,697 (
census
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1992)
to 31,577 (
census
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2001) and 38,448 (estimation 2005).
Division
The province consists of three
municipalities
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
which are further subdivided into
cantons
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.
See also
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San Jorge Lake
References
External links
Province mapPopulation data (Spanish)
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Provinces of Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia)