Guarayos Province

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

Guarayos

Location in Bolivia
Main data
Capital	Ascención de Guarayos
Area	20,293[1] km^2
Population	31,577 (2001)
Population density	0.9 inhabitants/km^2 (2001)
ISO 3166-2	BO.SC.GR

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 Santistevan Province in the southwest, and Ñuflo de Chávez 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 indigenous people, called Guarayos "savages". The current indigenous inhabitants seem to have settled here beginning with the 16th century. The province's population went up from 17,697 (census 1992)[1] to 31,577 (census 2001) and 38,448 (estimation 2005).

Division

The province consists of three municipalities which are further subdivided into cantons.

Section	Municipality	Seat
1st	Ascención de Guarayos Municipality	Ascención de Guarayos
2nd	El Puente Municipality	El Puente
3rd	Urubichá Municipality	Urubichá

See also

• San Jorge Lake

References

1. "Prefectura Santa Cruz". Archived from the original on 2008-01-26. Retrieved 2008-01-20.

External links

• Province map
• Detailed province map
• Population data (Spanish)