Cornelio Saavedra Province

Cornelio Saavedra
Province
Otuyo
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Location o the Cornelio Saavedra Province athin Bolivie
Provinces o the Potosí Depairtment
Coordinates: 19°21′S 65°13′W
Country	Bolivie
Depairtment	Potosí Depairtment
Municipalities	3
Cantons	18
Capital	Betanzos
Area
• Total	3153 km2 (1,217 sq mi)
Population  (2001)
• Total	58,706
• Density	18.6/km2 (48/sq mi)
• Ethnicities	Quechua
Area code(s)	BO.PO.CS

Cornelio Saavedra is a province in the north-eastren pairts o the Bolivie Potosí Depairtment. The caipital o the province is Betanzos wi 4,168 inhabitants in the year 2001.

The province is namit efter the preses o the Argentine First Junta, Cornelio Saavedra, who wis born in Otuyo, Betanzos Municipality.

Location

Cornelio Saavedra province is ane o saxteen provinces in the Potosí Depairtment. It is locatit atween 18° 57' an 19° 44' Sooth an atween 64° 48' an 65° 39' Wast. It borders Chuquisaca Depairtment in the northeast, Chayanta Province in the north, Tomás Frías Province in the wast, an José María Linares Province in the sooth an sootheast. The province extends ower 95 km frae east tae wast an 105 km frae north tae sooth.

Diveesion

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

Section	Municipality	Seat
1st	Betanzos Municipality	Betanzos
2nd	Chaquí Municipality	Chaquí
3rd	Tacobamba Municipality	Tacobamba

Population

The main leid o the province is Quechua, spoken bi 78 %, while 47 % o the population speaks Spaingie. The population increased frae 52,659 inhabitants (1992 census) tae 58,706 (2001 census), an increase o 11.5 %.

80 % o the population hae nae access tae electricity, 94 % hae nae sanitary facilities. 69 % o the population are employed in agricultur, 1 % in minin, 10 % in industrie, 20 % in general services. 89 % o the population are Catholics, 8 % Protestants.

The fowk are predominantly indigenous ceetizens o Quechua descent.

Ethnic group	Betanzos Municipality (%)	Chaquí Municipality (%)	Tacobamba Municipality (%)
Quechua	94.9	96.7	96.9
Aymara	0.1	0.2	0.2
Guaraní, Chiquitos, Moxos	0.1	0.0	0.1
Nae indigenous	4.9	2.8	2.8
Ither indigenous groups	0.0	0.2	0.0