Río Madre de Dios | |
Location in Bolivie | |
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General Data | |
Caipital | Puerto Gonzalo Moreno |
Aurie | 10,879 km² |
Population | 9,521 (2001) |
Densitie | 0.9 inhabitants/km² (2001) |
ISO 3166-2 | BO.PA.MD |
Pando Depairtment | |
Madre de Dios is ane o the five provinces o the Bolivie Pando depairtment an is situatit in the depairtment's soothren parts. Its name derives frae Río Madre de Dios which forms the province's northren border.
Madre de Dios province is locatit atween 10° 54' an 12° 28' sooth an atween 66° 05' an 67° 58' wast. It extends ower a length o 390 km fra northeast tae soothwast, an up tae 150 km frae northwast tae sootheast.
The province is situatit in the Amazon lawlands o Bolivie an borders Manuripi Province in the North, La Paz Depairtment in the soothwast, an Beni Depairtment in the sootheast.
The population o Federico Román Province haes increased bi 50 % ower the recent twa decades:
49.8 % o the population are younger than 15 year auld. (1992)
99.3 % o the population speak Spaingie, 0.7 % speak Quechua, 0.1 % Aymara, an 5.6 speak ither indigenous leids . (1992)
The leeteracy rate o the province's population is 82.4 %. (1992)
94.7 % o the population hae nae access tae electricity, 71.8 % hae nae sanitar facilities. (1992)
80.2 % o the population are Catholics, 18.8 % are Protestants. (1992)
The province comprises three municipios: