Mineros, Bolivia

Mineros
City
Mineros is located in Bolivia
Mineros
Mineros
Location in Bolivia.
Coordinates: 17°07′04″S 63°13′59″W / 17.11778°S 63.23306°W / -17.11778; -63.23306
Country Bolivia
Department Santa Cruz Department
ProvinceObispo Santistevan Province
MunicipalityMineros Municipality
Population
 (2012)[1]
 • Total
18,340
Time zoneUTC-4 (BOT)

Mineros is a city of Bolivia, capital of the Mineros Municipality of the Santa Cruz Department, 83 km north of the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Due to the policy of the 1960s that forced the indigenous people of the Altiplano to immigrate, 23.3% of the population knows how to speak Quechua.[2]

  1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (2012), Atlas Estadístico de Municipios (in Spanish), archived from the original on 4 March 2016, retrieved 25 December 2014
  2. ^ INE-Sozialdaten 2001 Archived 2013-09-25 at the Wayback Machine (PDF; 12,2 MB)