Nicolás Suárez Province

Nicolás Suárez is ane o the five provinces o the Bolivie Pando depairtment an is situatit in the depairtment's northwastren pairts. Its name honors Nicolás Suárez Callaú (1861-1940) who awned major pairts o the day's Pando an Beni Depairtments in the times o the caoutchouc-boom.

 Location 
Nicolás Suárez Province is locatit atween 10° 39' an 11° 27' sooth an atween 67° 33' an 69° 34' wast. It extends ower a length of 370 km frae northeast tae soothwast, an up tae 100 km frae north tae sooth.

The province is situatit in the Amazon lawlands o Bolivie an borders Brazil in the north, Peru in the wast, Manuripi Province in the sooth, an Abuná Province in the east.

 Population 
The population o Nicolás Suárez Province haes increased bi amaist 200 % ower the recent twa decades:
1992: 18,447 inhabitants (census) 
2001: 29,536 inhabitants (census) 
2005: 39,577 inhabitants (est.)Instituto Nacional de Estadística 
2010: 51,377 inhabitants (est.)Instituto Nacional de Estadística - Proyecciones 

42.4 % o the population are younger than 15 year auld. (1992)

84.7 % o the population speak Spaingie, 4.9 % speak Quechua, an 3.1 % speak Aymara (1992).

The leeteracy rate o the province's population is 78.1 %. (1992)

51.9 % o the population hae nae access tae electricity, 33.0 % hae nae sanitar facilities. (1992)

83.9 % o the population are Catholics, 13.8 % are Protestants. (1992)

 Diveesion 
The province comprises fower municipalities:
Bella Flor Municipality - 2,305 inhabitants (2001)Instituto Nacional de Estadística]
Bolpebra Municipality - 1,194 inhabitants 
Cobija Municipality - 22,324 inhabitants 
Porvenir Municipality - 3,713 inhabitants

 See an aw 
 Porvenir Massacre

 References 

 Freemit airtins 
General map o province 
Detailed map o province touns an rivers 
Population data (Spaingie) 
Social data (Spaingie) 

Category:Provinces o Pando Depairtment