Guarayos Province

Guarayos is a province in the northwestern parts of the Bolivan Santa Cruz Department.

Location

Guarayos is one of fifteen provinces in the Santa Cruz Department. It borders Beni Department in the north and northwest, Ichilo Province and Obispo Santisteban Province in the southwest, and Ñuflo de Chavez Province in the south and east.

The Province is situated between 13° 58' and 16° 30' south, and 62° 29' and 64° 44' west, its extension from east to west is up to 320 km, from north to west circa 380 km.

Population

Part of the province is inhabited by the Guarayos people, who seem to have settled here beginning with the 16th century. The province's population went up from 17,697 inhabitants (census 1992) [ [http://www.santacruz.gov.bo/websites/provincias/guarayos.html Prefectura Santa Cruz] ] to 31,577 (census 2001) and 38,448 (estimation 2005).

Division

The province consists of three municipios:
*Ascención de Guarayos
*El Puente
*Urubichá

References

External links

* [http://www.aguabolivia.org/situacionaguaX/Riego/mapas/santacruz/t_guarayos.htm Province map]
* [http://www.aguabolivia.org//situacionaguaX/Riego/mapas/santacruz/guarayos.htm Detailed province map]
* [http://www.ine.gov.bo/cgi-bin/PIWDGEOxx.EXE Population data (Spanish)]