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Cercado Province (Oruro)
Cercado is a province in the northeastern parts of the Bolivian department of Oruro.
Location
Cercado province is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department. It is located between 17 22' and 18 35' South and between 66 21' and 67 20' West.
It borders Tomas Barron Province and La Paz Department in the Northwest, Nor Carangas Province and Saucari Province in the West, Poopo Province and Pantaleon Dalence Province in the Southeast, and Cochabamba Department in the East and North.
The province extends over 135 km from North to South, and 105 km from East to West.
Population
Main idiom of the province is Spanish, spoken by 96.7 %, while 43.3 % of the population speak Quechua and 25.5 % Aymara.
The population increased from 213,755 inhabitants (1992 census) to 241,230 (2001 census), an increase of 12.9 %. - 39.4 % of the population is younger than 15 years old.
18.6 % of the population have no access to electricity, 67.5 % have no sanitary facilities.
16.3 % of the population are employed in agriculture, 1.8 % in mining, 11.9 % in industry, 70.0 % in general services (2001).
83.0 % of the population are Catholics, 13.5 % are Protestants (1992).
Division
The province comprises three municipios:
Caracollo
Oruro
El Choro
External links
Detailed map of province towns and rivers
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