Ichilo Province

**Ichilo**
Location in Bolivia

View of Río Piray

General Data
Capital	Buena Vista
Area	14,232 km²^[1]
Population	70,444 (2001)
Density	5.0 inhabitants/km² (2001)
ISO 3166-2	BO.SC.IC
Santa Cruz Department

Ichilo is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department and is situated in the department's north-western parts. The province was founded by a decree of 8 April 1926 and is named after Río Ichilo which is forming the province border in the West.

Location

Ichilo Province is located between 15° 48' and 18° 00' South and between 63° 27' and 64° 50' West. It extends over 350 km from Northwest to Southeast, and up to 110 km from Southwest to Northeast.

The province is situated in the Bolivian lowlands and borders Beni Department in the North, Cochabamba Department in the West, Manuel María Caballero Province in the Southwest, Florida Province in the South, Andrés Ibáñez Province in the Southeast, Sara Province in the East, and Ñuflo de Chávez Province in the Northeast.

Population

The population of Ichilo Province has increased by circa 80% over the recent two decades:

1992: 49,484 inhabitants (census)^[2]
2001: 70,444 inhabitants (census)
2005: 81,118 inhabitants (est.)^[3]
2010: 91,678 inhabitants (est.)^[4]

47.8% of the population are younger than 15 years old. (1992)

The literacy rate of the province is 78.5%.

96.1% of the population speak Spanish, 40.7% speak Quechua, 1.9% Aymara, and 0.6 speak Guaraní. (1992)

67.1% of the population have no access to electricity, 46.6% have no sanitary facilities. (1992)

81.3% of the population are Catholics, 15.1% are Protestants. (1992)

Geography

The medium altitude of the province is 386 m. The medium annual temperature in the province is 24.3 °C, the annual precipitation amounts to 2,563 mm.

Towns

Buena Vista is the province capital with 4,697 inhabitants (est. 2008).^[5] Other important towns in the province are

Yapacaní - 21,622 inhabitants (2008)
Santa Fe de Yapacaní - 7,736 inhabitants (2008)
San Carlos, Ichilo - 4,440 inhabitants (2008)
San Juan de Yapacaní - 4,121 inhabitants (2008)

Industry

Main agricultural good of the province is rice, 50% of all the production in the Santa Cruz Department is from Ichilo Province. Other important economic goods are cocoa and timber.

Division

The province comprises four municipalities:

Buena Vista Municipality 2,047 km² - 13,273 inhabitants (2001)^[6]
San Carlos Municipality 3,998 km² - 25,633 inhabitants (2001)^[7]
Yapacaní Municipality 8,187 km² - 31,538 inhabitants (2001)^[8]
San Juan de Yapacaní Municipality - 9,131 inhabitants (2001)^[9]

References

^ "New Page 3". Archived from the original on 2008-12-02. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
^ Santa Cruz Website Archived 2008-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Archived 2007-08-25 at the Wayback Machine
^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística - Proyecciones Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine
^ World Gazetteer ^{[dead link]}
^ "Federación de Asociaciones Municipales de Bolivia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-07-13. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
^ "Federación de Asociaciones Municipales de Bolivia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-05-04. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
^ "Federación de Asociaciones Municipales de Bolivia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-07-13. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) 2001 Archived 2009-11-13 at the Wayback Machine