Rafael Bustillo Province

Rafael Bustillo is a province in the Bolivie Potosí Depairtment. Its name honors the Bolivie diplomat an foreign secretary Rafael Bustillo († 1886). The caipital o the province is Uncía wi a population o 5,709 in the year 2001, the lairgest toun is Llallagua wi 20,065 inhabitants. Naitional Institute o Statistics o Bolivie  

Location
Rafael Bustillo province is ane o saxteen provinces in the Potosí Depairtment. It is locatit atween 18° 11' an 18° 45' Sooth an atween 66° 11' an 66° 45' Wast. It borders Oruro Depairtment in the northwast, wast an sooth, Chayanta Province in the sootheast, Charcas Province in the east, an Alonso de Ibáñez Province in the northeast. The province extends ower 70 km frae north tae sooth as well as frae east tae wast.

Diveesion
The province comprises fower municipalities  www.bolivia.com (Spaingie)  www.planguarani.com  (Spaingie) which are further subdividit intae cantons.

SectionMunicipalitySeat 1st  Uncía Municipality  Uncía 2nt  Chayanta Municipality  Chayanta 3rd  Llallagua Municipality  Llallagua 
  4t  Chuquihuta Municipality  Chuquihuta 

Chuquihuta Municipality wis creatit bi law on 17 Juin 2009. Till then it wis ane o the cantons o the Uncía Municipality.

Population
The main leid o the province is Quechua, spoken bi 86 %, while 74 % o the population speak Spaingie. The population increased frae 76,254 inhabitants (1992 census) tae 77,566 (2001 census), an increase o 1.7 %. 

46 % o the population hae nae access tae electricity, 78 % hae nae sanitary facilities. 41 % o the population are employed in agricultur, 11 % in minin, 11 % in industrie, 37 % in general services. 90.5 % o the population are Catholics, 6.7 % Protestants.

The fowk are predominantly indigenous citizens o Quechua an Aymara descent. obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo/municipal/fichas/ (inactive)  

 Ethnic group Uncía an Chuquihuta Municipality (%) Chayanta Municipality (%) Llallagua Municipality (%)Quechua69,187,871,6Aymara20,09,812,8Guaraní, Chiquitos, Moxos0,00,00,3No indigenous 10,92,215,1Ither indigenous groups0,00,10,2

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Category:Provinces o Potosí Depairtment