Gran Chaco is a
province
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in the eastern parts of the
Bolivian
department 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)) off ...
. The province voted to become an autonomous region on 6 December 2009.
Location
''Gran Chaco'' province is one of six provinces in the Tarija Department. It is located between 21° 00' and 22° 17'
south and between 62° 16' and 64° 18'
west
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Etymology
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.
The province borders
Chuquisaca Department
Chuquisaca () ( ay, Chuqisaka; qu, Chuqichaka) is a department of Bolivia located in the center south. It borders on the departments of Cochabamba, Tarija, Potosí, and Santa Cruz. The departmental capital is Sucre, which is also the consti ...
in the north,
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 north-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-west,
Argentina
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in the south, and
Paraguay
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in the east.
The province extends over 200 km from north to south, and 200 km from east to west.
Population
The main
language
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of the province is
Spanish
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, spoken by 98.4%, while 11.5% of the population speak
Quechua
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*Quechua people, several indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru
*Quechuan languages, a Native South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language
**So ...
, 3.0% speak
Aymara
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Languages and people
* Aymaran languages, the second most widespread Andean language
** Aymara language, the main language within that family
** Central Aymara, the other surviving branch of the Aymara(n) family, which today ...
, and 2.7%
Guaraní Guarani, Guaraní or Guarany may refer to
Ethnography
* Guaraní people, an indigenous people from South America's interior (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia)
* Guaraní language, or Paraguayan Guarani, an official language of Paraguay
* ...
.
The population increased from 74,612 inhabitants (1992
census
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) to 116,318 (2001 census), an increase of 55.9%. - 41.9% of the population are younger than 15 years old.
50.7% of the population have no access to
electricity
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, 41.1% have no
sanitary facilities (1992).
19.1% of the population are employed in
agriculture
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, 1.4% in
mining
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, 8.3% in
industry
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* The wider industrial sector ...
, 71.2% in
general services (2001).
86.8% of the population are
Catholics, 9.4% are
Protestants (1992).
Division
The province comprises three
municipalities
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
:
*
Caraparí Municipality
*
Villamontes Municipality
*
Yacuiba Municipality
Yacuiba is a city in southern Bolivia and the capital city of Gran Chaco Province in the Tarija Department. It lies three kilometers from the Argentine border. It has a population of approximately 80,000 and lies above sea level. Yacuiba is one ...
Places of interest
*
Aguaragüe National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area
*
Tariquía Flora and Fauna National Reserve
See also
*
Provinces of Bolivia
A province is the second largest administrative division in Bolivia, after a department. Each department is divided into provinces. There are 112 provinces.
The country's provinces are further divided into 337 municipalities which are administe ...
External links
General map of provincePopulation data (Spanish)Región Autónoma Chaco Tarijeño - Ministerio de Autonomías
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Provinces of Tarija Department
Gran Chaco