Ignacio Warnes Province
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| View of Río Piray Piray River -References:*Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.... near Warnes Warnes (Santa Cruz) Warnes is a town in Bolivia. It is located 24 kilometers north of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.- External links :*... |
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| Capital | Warnes Warnes (Santa Cruz) Warnes is a town in Bolivia. It is located 24 kilometers north of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.- External links :*... |
| Area Area Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat... |
1,216 km² |
| Population Population A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals... |
54,593 (2001) |
| Density Density The mass density or density of a material is defined as its mass per unit volume. The symbol most often used for density is ρ . In some cases , density is also defined as its weight per unit volume; although, this quantity is more properly called specific weight... |
43.8 inhabitants/km² (2001) |
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BO.SC.WR |
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Ignacio Warnes is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivia
Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
n Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz Department
Santa Cruz, with an area of 370,621 km², is the largest of the nine constituent departments of Bolivia. In the 2001 census, it reported a population of 2,029,471. The capital is the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The state is one of the wealthiest states in Bolivia with huge reserves of...
Department
Departments of Bolivia
Bolivia is divided into nine departments . Each of the departments is subdivided into provinces , which are further subdivided into municipalities ....
and is situated in the department's central parts. The province name honors Colonel Ignacio Warnes
Ignacio Warnes
José Ignacio Warnes y García de Zúñiga was an Argentine soldier who fought in the Argentine War of Independence. Son of the mayor of the city of Buenos Aires Manuel Antonio Warnes y Durango and Ana Jacoba García de Zúñiga y Lizola...
(1772-1816), a military leader in the South American war of independence.
Location
Ignacio Warnes Province is located between 17° 00' and 17° 42' SouthLatitude
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and between 62° 42' and 63° 14' West
Longitude
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. It extends over 85 km from North to South, and 70 km from West to East. Río Piray
Piray River
-References:*Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993....
is forming the province border in the West and Río Grande
Río Grande (Bolivia)
The Río Grande in Bolivia rises on the southern slope of the Sierra de Cochabamba, east of the city of Cochabamba, at . At its source it is known as the Río Rocha and crosses the Cochabamba valley basin in a westerly direction...
in the East.
The province is situated in the Bolivian lowlands and borders Obispo Santistevan Province
Obispo Santistevan Province
Obispo Santistevan is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz department and is situated in the department's western parts. The province was founded on 2 December 1941, and its name honors Obispo Santistevan , famous supporter of the building of Santa Cruz Cathedral...
in the Northwest, Sara Province
Sara Province
Sara is a province in the Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Portachuelo.- Subdivision :The province is divided into three municipalities which are further subdivided into cantons....
in the West, Andrés Ibáñez Province
Andrés Ibáñez Province
Andrés Ibáñez Province is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department, situated in the western part of the department. Its capital is Santa Cruz de la Sierra which is also the capital of the department....
in the South, and Ñuflo de Chávez Province
Ñuflo de Chávez Province
Ñuflo de Chávez is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department and is situated in the northern central parts of the department. The name of the province honors the conquistador Ñuflo de Chaves who founded the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Its capital is Concepción...
in the East.
Population
The population of Ignacio Warnes Province has increased by circa 75 % over the recent two decades:- 1992: 38,285 inhabitants (censusCensusA census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
) - 2001: 54,593 inhabitants (censusCensusA census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
) - 2005: 60,705 inhabitants (est.)
- 2010: 67,721 inhabitants (est.)
46.2 % of the population are younger than 15 years old. (1992)
The literacy
Literacy
Literacy has traditionally been described as the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently and think critically about printed material.Literacy represents the lifelong, intellectual process of gaining meaning from print...
rate of the province is 72.6 %.
95.2 % of the population speak Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, 14.2 % speak Quechua, 4.1 % Guaraní
Guaraní language
Guaraní, specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guaraní , is an indigenous language of South America that belongs to the Tupí–Guaraní subfamily of the Tupian languages. It is one of the official languages of Paraguay , where it is spoken by the majority of the population, and half of...
, and 1.3 speak Aymara
Aymara language
Aymara is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over three million speakers. Aymara, along with Quechua and Spanish, is an official language of Peru and Bolivia...
. (1992)
41.9 % of the population have no access to electricity, 47.9 % have no sanitary facilities. (1992)
88.4 % of the population are Catholics, 8.8 % are Protestants. (1992)
Subdivision
The province is divided into two municipalitiesMunicipalities of Bolivia
Municipalities in Bolivia are administrative divisions of the entire national territory governed by local elections. Municipalities are the third level of administrative divisions, below departments and provinces. Some of the provinces consist of only one municipality...
which are further subdivided into cantons. The municipalities with their seats are:
| Section | Municipality | Inhabitants (2001) | Seat |
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| 1st | Warnes Municipality | 42,631 | Warnes Warnes (Santa Cruz) Warnes is a town in Bolivia. It is located 24 kilometers north of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.- External links :*... |
| 2nd | Okinawa Uno Municipality | 11,961 | Okinawa |