Alonso de Ibáñez is a province

Province

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 in the northern parts 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 Potosí Department

Potosí Department

Potosí Department is a department in southwestern Bolivia. It comprises 118,218 km² with 709,013 inhabitants . The capital is the city of Potosí....

. Its capital is Sacaca (1,862 inhabitants in 2001).

Location

Alonso de Ibáñez province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It is located between 17 56' und 18 20' South

Latitude

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 and between 66 10' und 66 48' West

Longitude

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. It borders Cochabamba Department

Cochabamba Department

Cochabamba is one of the nine component departments of Bolivia. It is known to be the "granary" of the country because of its variety of agricultural products due to Cochabamba's geographical position. It has an area of 55,631 km². Its population, in the 2007 census, was 1,750,000...

 in the north, Oruro Department

Oruro Department

Oruro is a department in Bolivia, with an area of 53,588 km². Its capital is the city of Oruro. At the time of census 2001 it had a population of 391,870.- Provinces of Oruro :...

 in the southwest, Rafael Bustillo Province

Rafael Bustillo Province

Rafael Bustillo is a province in the Bolivian Potosí Department. Its name honors the Bolivian diplomat and foreign secretary Rafael Bustillo . The capital of the province is Uncía with a population of 5,709 in the year 2001, the largest town is Llallagua with 20,065 inhabitants.-Location:Rafael...

 in the south, Charcas Province

Charcas Province

Charcas is a province in the northern parts of the Bolivian Potosí Department. Its capital is San Pedro de Buena Vista .-Location:...

 in the southeast, and Bernardino Bilbao Province

Bernardino Bilbao Province

Bernardino Bilbao is a province in the Northern parts of the Bolivian department of Potosí. It has its name after Bernardino Bilbao Rioja, Bolivian general and politician.-Location:...

 in the northeast. The province extends over 75 km from east to west and 60 km from north to south.

Division

The province comprises two municipalities

Municipalities of Bolivia

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 which are further subdivided into cantons

Cantons of Bolivia

||On the level below municipalities, Bolivia is divided into cantons ....

.

Section	Municipality	Seat
1st	Sacaca Municipality	Sacaca
2nd	Caripuyu Municipality	Caripuyu

Population

The main language of the province is Quechua

Quechua languages

Quechua is a Native South American language family and dialect cluster spoken primarily in the Andes of South America, derived from an original common ancestor language, Proto-Quechua. It is the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of probably...

, spoken by 88 %, while 62 % of the population 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...

 and 49 % 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...

. The population increased from 23,512 inhabitants (1992 census) to 27,755 (2001 census), an increase of 18 %.

96 % of the population have no access to electricity, 95 % have no sanitary facilities. 78.5 % of the population are employed in agriculture, 0.3 % in mining, 8.7 % in industry, 12.5 % in general services. 95.5 % of the population are Catholics, 3.5 % Protestants.

The people are predominantly indigenous

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 citizens of Quechua and Aymara descent.

Ethnic group	Sacaca Municipality (%)	Caripuyu Municipality (%)
Quechua	65,2	25,9
Aymara	29,8	71,2
Guaraní, Chiquitos Chiquitos Chiquitos means "little ones" in Spanish. The Spanish Conquistadores chose this name for the people living in the rain savannas of what is now the eastern parts of the Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia, when they found the small doors of the Indian huts in the region.Today, this area is called Gran... , Moxos Moxos people The Moxos, also known as the Mojos, are an indigenous people living around the head-waters of the Madeira River in northern Bolivia, particularly on both banks of the Mamore River. They submitted to Inca domination, but in 1564 gallantly repulsed the Spaniards. A century later, however, the Jesuits...	0,0	0,0
Not indigenous Indigenous peoples of the Americas The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...	4,9	2,7
Other indigenous groups	0,1	0,1