Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia)
Santa Cruz, with an area of 370,621 km², is the largest of the nine constituent departments of Bolivia. In the 2001 census, it reported a population of 2,029,471. The capital is the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The state is one of the wealthiest states in Bolivia with huge reserves of natural gas. Highlighting the cultural, economic, and political divides between the people of the highlands (occident) and lowlands (orient) of Bolivia, the efforts by the Bolivian president Evo Morales to introduce land reforms and redistribute the natural gas revenues with the poorer indigenous people in western Bolivia, has spurred on divisions within the country and calls and action for greater regional/departmental autonomy.
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