Puerto de Mejillones is a
province in the western parts of the
Bolivia
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department
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Government and military
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of
Oruro. It is one of the sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department. Its seat is
La Rivera.
Location
The province is located between 18° 53' and 19° 16'
South
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Etymology
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and between 68° 10' and 68° 26'
West. It is surrounded by
Sabaya Province
Sabaya (formerly: Atahuallpa) is a province in the central parts of the Bolivian Oruro Department. Its seat is Sabaya.
Location
Sabaya Province is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department. It is located between 18° 35' and 19° 39' Sout ...
in the north, west and east, and it borders the Republic of
Chile in the southwest.
The province extends over 45 km from north to south, and 35 km from east to west.
Geography
Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below:
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Division
The province comprises three municipalities which are further subdivided into cantons.
Demographics
Main language of the province is Spanish, spoken by 97.0%, while 66.6% of the population speak Aymara and 8.6% Quechua (1992).
The population increased from 751 inhabitants (1992 census) to 1,130 (2001 census), an increase of 50%.
42.6% of the population are younger than 15 years old (1992).
74% of the population have no access to electricity, 73% have no sanitary facilities
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(1992).
83.8% of the population are employed in agriculture, 1.0% in industry, 15.2% in general services (2001).
74% of the population are Catholics
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, 18% are Protestants
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(1992).
References
External links
General map of provincePopulation data (Spanish)
{{Oruro Department
Provinces of Oruro Department