Abuná Province

Abuná

Río Abuná
Location in Bolivie
General Data
Caipital	Santa Rosa
Aurie	7,468 km²
Population	2,996 (2001)
Densitie	0.4 inhabitants/km² (2001)
ISO 3166-2	BO.PA.AB
Pando Depairtment

Abuná is ane o the five provinces o the Bolivie depairtment o Pando an is situatit in the depairtment's northren central pairts. It haes its name frae Río Abuná, the border river tae neebourin Brazil.

Location

Aroma province is locatit atween 9° 53' an 11° 06' sooth an atween 66° 27' an 67° 42' wast. It extends ower 120–250 km frae north tae sooth, an 350 km frae wast tae east.

The province is situatit in the Amazon lawlands o Bolivie an borders Brazil in the north, Nicolás Suárez Province in the northwast an wast, Manuripi Province in the sooth, an Federico Román Province in the east.

Population

The population o Abuná Province haes increased bi 40 % ower the recent twa decades:

• 1992: 2,652 inhabitants (census)
• 2001: 2,996 inhabitants (census)
• 2005: 3,475 inhabitants (est.)
• 2010: 3,729 inhabitants (est.)

45.4 % o the population are younger than 15 year auld. (1992)

52.3 % o the population speak Spaingie, 2.8 % speak Aymara, 2.0 % Quechua, an 52.8 speak ither indigenous leids. (1992)

The leeteracy rate o the province's population is 47.4 %. (1992)

87.6 % o the population hae nae access tae electricity, 83.6 % hae nae sanitar facilities. (1992)

83.5 % o the population are Catholics, 15.4 % are Protestants. (1992)

Diveesion

The province comprises twa municipios:

• Santa Rosa del Abuná Municipality - 3,090 km² - 2,097 inhabitants (2001)
• Ingavi Municipality - 4,378 km² - 899 inhabitants (2001)

Freemit airtins

• General map o province Archived 2008-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
• Detailed map o province touns an rivers Archived 2008-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
• Population data (Spaingie) Archived 2008-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
• Social data (Spaingie) Archived 2008-10-09 at the Wayback Machine