Andrés Ibáñez Province

Andrés Ibáñez Province is ane o the fifteen provinces o the Bolivie Santa Cruz Depairtment, situatit in the wastren pairt o the depairtment. Its caipital is Santa Cruz de la Sierra which is the caipital o the depairtment an aw.

Andrés Ibáñez
Province
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, situatit at the Piray River
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Location o the Andrés Ibáñez Province athin Bolivie
Provinces o the Santa Cruz Depairtment
Coordinates: 17°50′S 63°15′W
Kintra	Bolivie
Depairtment	Santa Cruz Depairtment
Municipalities	5
Cantons	18
Foondation	6 Dizember 1944
Caipital	Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Area
• Total	4821 km2 (1,861 sq mi)
Elevation	416 m (1,365 ft)
Population  (2001)
• Total	1,260,549
• Density	261.5/km2 (677/sq mi)
Area code(s)	BO.SC.AI
Website	www.santacruz.gob.bo

The province wis creatit on 6 Dizember 1944, durin the presidency o Gualberto Villarroel.

Location

Andrés Ibáñez Province is locatit atween 17° 30' an 18° 15' Sooth an atween 62° 48' an 63° 40' Wast. It extends ower 110 km frae wast tae east, an 90 km frae north tae sooth.

The province is situatit in the Bolivie lawlands an borders Ignacio Warnes Province an Sara Province in the north, Ichilo Province in the northwast, Florida Province in the soothwast, Cordillera Province in the sootheast, an Chiquitos Province in the east.

Climate

Andrés Ibáñez Province is situatit in an aurie o a semihumid tropical climate. It is characterisit bi a vera short dry saison in the months o Julie an August an sufficient precipitation durin the rest o the year, reachin a maximum in Januar.

The monthly average temperaturs are a tropical 20 tae 26 °C, wi the lawest temperaturs in the dry saison whan nichts are slichtly caulder acause the cloud civer is broken. The yearly average temperatur is 23.9 °C.

Diveesion

Andrés Ibáñez Province comprises five municipalities which are further subdividit intae cantons.

Section	Municipality	Inhabitants (2001)	Seat
Caipital Municipality	Santa Cruz Municipality	1,135,526	Santa Cruz de la Sierra
1st	Cotoca Municipality	36,425	Cotoca
2nt	Ayacucho Municipality or Porongo Municipality	11,085	Porongo
3rd	La Guardia Municipality	39,552	La Guardia
4t	El Torno Municipality	37,961	El Torno

Population

The population o Andrés Ibáñez Province haes increased bi circa 130% ower the recent twa decades:

• 1992: 784,678 indwallers (census)^[1]
• 2001: 1,260,549 indwallers (census)
• 2005: 1,526,187 indwallers (est.)^[2]
• 2010: 1,841,282 indwallers (est.)^[3]
• 40.1% o the population are younger than 15 year auld. (1992)
• 99.0% o the population speak Spaingie, 12.5% speak Quechua, 3.4% Aymara, an 0.8 speak Guaraní. (1992)
• 6.7% o the employed population wirk in agricultur, 1.0% in minin, 14.1% in the industrial sector, an 78.2% in general services (2001).
• 15.7% o the population hae nae access tae electricity, 22.2% hae nae sanitar facilities. (1992)
• 86.1% o the population are Catholics, 9.7% are Protestants. (1992)
• 50% o the population is o European strynd
• 40% o the population is Mestizo.
• 10% o the population is native tae Bolivie

References

1. Santa Cruz Website Archived 2008-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
2. Instituto Nacional de Estadística Archived 2007-08-25 at the Wayback Machine
3. Instituto Nacional de Estadística - Proyecciones Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine

Freemit airtins

• General map o province Archived 2008-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
• Detailed map o province touns an rivers Archived 2009-04-19 at the Wayback Machine
• Population data (Spainyie) Archived 2008-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
• Social data (Spainyie) Archived 2008-10-09 at the Wayback Machine