Antonio Quijarro Province

Antonio Quijarro
Province
Salt production on the Salar de Uyuni
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Location o the Antonio Quijarro Province athin Bolivie
Provinces o the Potosí Depairtment
Coordinates: 20°10′0″S 66°30′0″W
Kintra	Bolivie
Depairtment	Potosí Depairtment
Caipital	Uyuni
Area
• Total	17449 km2 (6,737 sq mi)
Population  (2001)
• Total	37,428
• Density	2.1/km2 (5/sq mi)
• Ethnicities	Quechua Aymara
Area code(s)	BO.PO.AQ

Antonio Quijarro is a province in the central pairts o the Bolivie Potosí Depairtment situatit at the Salar de Uyuni. Its seat is Uyuni.

Location

Antonio Quijarro province is ane o saxteen provinces in the Potosí Depairtment. It is locatit atween 19° 21' an 20° 59' Sooth an atween 65° 46' an 67° 15' Wast.

It borders Oruro Depairtment in the north, Nor Lípez Province in the wast, Sud Chichas Province in the sootheast, Nor Chichas Province an José María Linares Province in the east, an Tomás Frías Province in the northeast.

The province extends ower 180 km frae east tae wast an 225 km frae north tae sooth.

Diveesion

The province comprises three municipalities which are pairtly further subdividit intae cantons.

Section	Municipality	Seat
1st	Uyuni Municipality	Uyuni
2nd	Tomave Municipality	Tomave
3rd	Porco Municipality	Porco

Population

The main leid o the province is Spaingie, spoken bi 87 %, while 74 % o the population speak Quechua. The population increased frae 37,384 inhabitants (1992 census) tae 37,428 (2001 census), an increase o anerlie 0.1 %. Caipital o the province is Uyuni (10,191 inhabitants).

53 % o the population hae nae access tae electricity, 85 % hae nae sanitary facilities. 50 % o the population are employed in agricultur, 8 % in minin, 5 % in industrie, 37 % in general services. 86 % o the population are Catholics, 11 % Protestants.

The fowk are predominantly indigenous ceetizens o Quechua an Aymara strynd.

Ethnic group	Uyuni Municipality (%)	Tomave Municipality (%)	Porco Municipality (%)
Quechua	52.9	93.1	90.1
Aymara	24.2	3.2	1.9
Guaraní, Chiquitos, Moxos	0.2	0.1	0.1
Nae indigenous	22.6	3.5	7.7
Ither indigenous groups	0.2	0.2	0.1

References

• Population data (Spaingie) Archived 2007-02-22 at the Wayback Machine