Cornelio Saavedra is a province

Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...

 in the north-eastern 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....

. The capital of the province is Betanzos with 4,168 inhabitants in the year 2001.

The province is named after the president of the Argentine First Junta, Cornelio Saavedra

Cornelio Saavedra

Cornelio Judas Tadeo de Saavedra y Rodríguez was a military officer and statesman from the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata...

, who was born in Otuyo

Otuyo

Otuyo is a locality in the Betanzos Municipality, Cornelio Saavedra Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia. It is the seat of the Otuyo Canton.The president of the Argentine First Junta, Cornelio Saavedra, was born close to this town and he was baptized in the church of Otuyo....

, Betanzos Municipality.

Location

Cornelio Saavedra province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It is located between 18° 57' and 19° 44' South

Latitude

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 and between 64° 48' and 65° 39' West

Longitude

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. It borders Chuquisaca Department

Chuquisaca Department

Chuquisaca is a department of Bolivia located in the center south. It borders on the departments of Cochabamba, Tarija, Potosí, and Santa Cruz. The departmental capital is Sucre, which is also the constitutional capital of Bolivia.-Geography:...

 in the northeast, Chayanta Province

Chayanta Province

Chayanta Municipality is the second municipal section of the Rafael Bustillo Province in the Bolivian Potosí Department. Its seat is Chayanta.-Location:...

 in the north, Tomás Frías Province

Tomás Frías Province

Tomás Frías is a province in the northern parts of the Bolivian Potosí Department. Its capital is Potosí which is also the capital of the department. The province is named after the former president Tomás Frías Ametller.-Location:...

 in the west, and José María Linares Province

José María Linares Province

José María Linares is a province in the eastern parts of the Bolivian department of Potosí. Its capital is Puna.-Location:José María Linares province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It is located between 19° 30' and 20° 16' South and between 64° 43' and 65° 53' West...

 in the south and southeast. The province extends over 95 km from east to west and 105 km from north to south.

Division

The province comprises three municipalities

Municipalities of Bolivia

Municipalities in Bolivia are administrative divisions of the entire national territory governed by local elections. Municipalities are the third level of administrative divisions, below departments and provinces. Some of the provinces consist of only one municipality...

 which are partly further subdivided into cantons

Cantons of Bolivia

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

.

Section	Municipality	Seat
1st	Betanzos Municipality	Betanzos
2nd	Chaquí Municipality	Chaquí
3rd	Tacobamba Municipality	Tacobamba

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 78 %, while 47 % of the population speaks 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 52,659 inhabitants (1992 census) to 58,706 (2001 census), an increase of 11.5 %.

80 % of the population have no access to electricity, 94 % have no sanitary facilities. 69 % of the population are employed in agriculture, 1 % in mining, 10 % in industry, 20 % in general services. 89 % of the population are Catholics, 8 % Protestants.

The people are predominantly indigenous

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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 citizens of Quechua descent.

Ethnic group	Betanzos Municipality (%)	Chaquí Municipality (%)	Tacobamba Municipality (%)
Quechua	94.9	96.7	96.9
Aymara	0.1	0.2	0.2
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...	0.1	0.0	0.1
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	2.8	2.8
Other indigenous groups	0.0	0.2	0.0