Federico Román Province

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Federico Román
Río Abuná on the richt, Río Madeira on the left
Location in Bolivie
General Data
Caipital Nueva Esperanza
Aurie 13,200 km²
Population 2,242 (2001)
Densitie 0.2 inhabitants/km² (2001)
ISO 3166-2 BO.PA.GR
Pando Depairtment

Federico Román (or: General Federico Román) is ane o the five provinces o the Bolivie depairtment o Pando an is situatit in the depairtment's northeastren pairts. Its name honours General Federico Román.

Location[eedit | eedit soorce]

Aroma province is locatit atween 09° 41' an 10° 51' sooth an atween 65° 17' an 66° 39' wast. It extends ower 150 km frae north tae sooth, an 200 km frae wast tae East.

The province is situatit in the Amazon lawlands o Bolivie an borders Abuná Province in the wast, Manuripi Province in the soothwast, Beni Depairtment in the sootheast, an Brazil in the east an north.

The border tae Beni Depairtment in the sooth forms Río Beni, tae neebourin Brazil Río Madeira in the east an Río Abuná in the north.

Population[eedit | eedit soorce]

The population o Federico Román Province haes increased bi mair nor 100 % ower the recent twa decades:

  • 1992: 1,516 inhabitants (census)
  • 2001: 2,242 inhabitants (census)
  • 2005: 2,912 inhabitants (est.)[1]
  • 2010: 3,600 inhabitants (est.)[2]

39.6 % o the population are younger than 15 year auld. (1992)

87.9 % o the population speak Spaingie, 3.1 % speak Quechua, 1.2 % Aymara, an 26.5 speak foreign leids (mainly Portuguese, due tae the nearness tae Brazil) . (1992)

The leeteracy rate o the province's population is 72.6 %. (1992)

83.1 % o the population hae nae access tae electricity, 59.1 % hae nae sanitar facilities. (1992)

83.1 % o the population are Catholics, 15.2 % are Protestants. (1992)

Diveesion[eedit | eedit soorce]

The province comprises three municipios:

References[eedit | eedit soorce]

  1. a b "Instituto Nacional de Estadística" (PDF). Archived frae the original (PDF) on 25 August 2007. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
  2. "Instituto Nacional de Estadística - Proyecciones" (PDF). Archived frae the original (PDF) on 18 November 2008. Retrieved 26 September 2012.

Freemit airtins[eedit | eedit soorce]

Coordinates: 10°20′S 66°00′W / 10.333°S 66.000°W / -10.333; -66.000