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Okinawa Uno, is a municipality of Bolivia, located in Ignacio Warnes Province in Santa Cruz Department. Its shares its name with the town of Okinawa I, which lies between the Río Grande to the east and the Pailón River to the west. The municipality has a population of 10,508 inhabitants, according to the 2024 Bolivian census.[1]
History
[edit]The town of Okinawa I was established by Okinawan immigrants after the end of the Second World War, and during its peak in the mid-1960s consisted of 565 families and over 3,000 Okinawans in total.[2][3][4]
The municipality was established on 6 April 1991, separating it from Warnes Municipality.[5]
Demography
[edit]| Year | Population | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 11,661 | 2001 Census[6][7] |
| 2012 | 12,482 | 2012 Census[1] |
| 2024 | 10,508 | 2024 census[8] |
Cantons and communities
[edit]Okinawa Uno is divided into two cantons at its creation: Okinawa Uno and Ignacia Zeballos, with Okinawa Uno and Nuevo Horizonte as their respective capitals.[9] They contain the following communities.[10]
Okinawa Uno Canton includes the communities of:
- Nueva Esperanza
- El Carmen
- El Retiro
- Puerto Perez
- Valle Chico Los Limones
- Junta Pailon
- Las Mercedes
- Okinawa 2
- Puerto Nuevo
- Rancho Chico
- Los Angeles
- Monte Verde
- Nueva Aurora
- Okinawa 1
- San Antonio
- Sumuque
- Villa Reyes
Ignacia Zeballos Canton includes the communities of:
- Nuevo Horizonte
- Virgen De Guadalupe
- Okinawa 3
- San Miguel
- San Miguel II
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 "Listado de Comunidades" (in Spanish). National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia. 2014. Retrieved 12 Jan 2023.
- ↑ Miyahira & Petrucci (2015), p. 557.
- ↑ Mar 2014, Akemi Kikumura Yano / 14. "Bolivia - Migration Historical Overview". Discover Nikkei. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ "Okinawa, Bolivia". The World from PRX. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
- ↑ "Bolivia: Ley Nº 1837, 6 de abril de 1991". 1991. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
- ↑ "Okinawa Uno" (in Spanish). Instituto Cruceño de Estadística. Archived from the original on 2023-01-13. Retrieved 2023-01-13.
- ↑ "Plan de desarrollo municipal" (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-01-17. Retrieved 2023-01-13.
- ↑ "Okinawa Uno (Municipality, Bolivia) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
- ↑ "Bolivia: Ley Nº 1837, 6 de abril de 1991". 1991. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (2015), Bolivia- Encuesta de Presupuestos Familiares 2015-2016: Clasificaciones, https://catalog.ihsn.org//catalog/8033/download/88221: International Household Survey Network
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Sources
[edit]- Miyahira, Katsuyuki; Petrucci, Peter R. (2015). "Uchinaaguchi as an online symbolic resource within and across the Okinawan diaspora". In Heinrich, Patrick; Miyara, Shinsho; Shimoji, Michinori (eds.). Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages. De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 553–573. doi:10.1515/9781614511151.553. ISBN 9781614511618.
- Suzuki, Taku (2010). Embodying Belonging: Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. ISBN 9780824833442. JSTOR j.ctt6wqxfx.