View o Río Piray near Warnes | |
Location in Bolivie | |
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General Data | |
Caipital | Warnes |
Aurie | 1,216 km²[1] |
Population | 54,593 (2001) |
Densitie | 43.8 inhabitants/km² (2001) |
ISO 3166-2 | BO.SC.WR |
Santa Cruz Depairtment | |
Ignacio Warnes is ane o the fifteen provinces o the Bolivie Santa Cruz Depairtment an is situatit in the depairtment's central pairts. The province name honors Colonel Ignacio Warnes (1772-1816), a militar leader in the Sooth American war o unthirldom.
Ignacio Warnes Province is locatit atween 17° 00' an 17° 42' Sooth an atween 62° 42' an 63° 14' West. It extends ower 85 km frae North tae Sooth, an 70 km frae Wast tae East. Río Piray is formin the province border in the Wast an Río Grande in the East.
The province is situatit in the Bolivie lawlands an borders Obispo Santistevan Province in the Northwast, Sara Province in the Wast, Andrés Ibáñez Province in the Sooth, an Ñuflo de Chávez Province in the East.
The population o Ignacio Warnes Province haes increased bi circa 75% ower the recent twa decades:
46.2% o the population are younger than 15 year auld. (1992)
The leeteracy rate o the province is 72.6%.
95.2% o the population speak Spainyie, 14.2% speak Quechua, 4.1% Guaraní, an 1.3 speak Aymara. (1992)
41.9% o the population hae nae access tae electricity, 47.9% hae nae sanitar facilities. (1992)
88.4% o the population are Catholics, 8.8% are Protestants. (1992)
The province is dividit intae twa municipalities which are further subdividit intae cantons. The municipalities wi their seats are:
Section | Municipality | Inhabitants (2001) | Seat |
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1st | Warnes Municipality | 42,631 | Warnes |
2nd | Okinawa Uno Municipality | 11,961 | Okinawa |