Madre de Dios Province

Madre de Dios is ane o the five provinces o the Bolivie Pando depairtment an is situatit in the depairtment's soothren parts. Its name derives frae Río Madre de Dios which forms the province's northren border.

 Location 
Madre de Dios province is locatit atween 10° 54' an 12° 28' sooth an atween 66° 05' an 67° 58' wast. It extends ower a length o 390 km fra northeast tae soothwast, an up tae 150 km frae northwast tae sootheast.

The province is situatit in the Amazon lawlands o Bolivie an borders Manuripi Province in the North, La Paz Depairtment in the soothwast, an Beni Depairtment in the sootheast.

 Population 
The population o Federico Román Province haes increased bi 50 % ower the recent twa decades:
1992: 8,097 inhabitants (census) 
2001: 9,521 inhabitants (census) 
2005: 11,220 inhabitants (est.)
2010: 12,290 inhabitants (est.)

49.8 % o the population are younger than 15 year auld. (1992)

99.3 % o the population speak Spaingie, 0.7 % speak Quechua, 0.1 % Aymara, an 5.6 speak ither indigenous leids . (1992)

The leeteracy rate o the province's population is 82.4 %. (1992)

94.7 % o the population hae nae access tae electricity, 71.8 % hae nae sanitar facilities. (1992)

80.2 % o the population are Catholics, 18.8 % are Protestants. (1992)

 Diveesion 
The province comprises three municipios:
Puerto Gonzalo Moreno Municipality - 4,714 inhabitants (2005)
San Lorenzo Municipality - 4.018 inhabitants 
El Sena Municipality - 2.488 inhabitants

 Places o interest 
 Manuripi-Heath Amazonian Wildlife National Reserve

 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