|
+----------------+-------------+----------+--------------+----------+
| La Paz | 53,777 | 445,616 | La Paz | 54,713 |
| El Beni | 102,111 | 32,180 | Trinidad | 2,556 |
| Oruro | 19,127 | 86,081 | Oruro | 13,575 |
| Cochabamba | 23,328 | 328,163 | Cochabamba | 21,886 |
| Santa Cruz | 141,368 | 209,592 | Santa Cruz de| 15,874 |
| | | | la Sierra | |
| Potosi | 48,801 | 325,615 | Potosi | 20,910 |
| Chuquisaca | 26,418 | 204,434 | Sucre | 20,967 |
| Tarija | 33,036 | 102,887 | Tarija | 6,980 |
| Nat. Territory | 192,260 | 31,883 | | |
+----------------+-------------+----------+--------------+----------+
| | 640,226 |1,766,451 | | |
+----------------+-------------+----------+--------------+----------+

[*] The figures for population include a 5% addition for omissions,
sundry corrections and the estimated number of wild Indians.

The total area according to Gotha computations, with corrections for
loss of territory to Brazil in 1903, is 515,156 sq. m.

There are no populous towns other than the provincial capitals above
enumerated. Four of these capitals--Sucre or Chuquisaca, La Paz,
Cochabamba and Oruro--have served as the national capital, and Sucre was
chosen, but after the revolution of 1898 the capital was at La Paz,
which is the commercial metropolis and is more accessible than Sucre.
Among the smaller towns prominent because of an industry or commercial
position, may be mentioned the Huanchaca mining centre of Pulacayo (pop.
6512), where 3200 men are employed in the mines and surface works of
this great silver mining company; Uyuni (pop. 1587), the junction of the
Pulacayo branch with the Antofagasta and Oruro railway, and also the
converging point for several important highways and projected railways;
and Tupiza (pop. 1644), a commercial and mining centre near the
Argentine frontier, and the terminus of the Argentine railway extension
into Bolivia. All these towns are in the department of Potosi. Viacha
(pop. 1670), a small station on the railway from Guaqui to Alto de La
Paz, 14 m. from the latter, is the starting point of an important
projected railway to Oruro. In the department of Cochabamba, Tarata
(4