Azua Province

Azua
Azua
Province
	EST)
Area code	1-809 1-829 1-849
ISO 3166-2	DO-02
Postal Code	71000

Azua (Spanish pronunciation:

Azua de Compostela. It is bordered by the provinces of La Vega to the north-east, San José de Ocoa and Peravia to the east, Barahona and Baoruco to the west and San Juan to the north-west. To the south, Azua has a significant coastline of the Caribbean Sea

. Azua is known for its diverse geography and climate, with the southern part of the province having an arid climate that is not the typical tropical-like that is found in other parts of the Caribbean.

Geography

The southern part of the province is located in the Llanura or Llano de Azua (also known as the "Plena de Azua"), a coastal plain surrounded by mountains that act as barriers to the water-laden winds so that the lower parts of the province are very arid.

Azua had the Sierra de Ocoa, which is the southern end of the Cordillera Central, the tallest mountain range in the caribbean. In the northern half of the province is also the Cordillera Central. In the southwest, on the border with the Barahona and Baoruco provinces, are the Martín García and Neiba mountain ranges.

Municipalities and municipal districts

The province as of 20 June 2006 is divided into the following

municipalities (municipios) and municipal districts (distrito municipal – D.M.) within them:^[1]

Azua
(Azua de Compostela)
Barreras (D.M.)

Barro Arriba (D.M.)

Clavellina (D.M.)

Emma Balaguer Viuda Vallejo (D.M.)

Las Barias-La Estancia (D.M.)

Las Lomas (D.M.)

Los Jovillos (D.M.)

Puerto Viejo (D.M.)
Estebanía
Guayabal
Las Charcas
- Hatillo (D.M.)
- Palmar de Ocoa (D.M.)
Las Yayas de Viajama
- Hato Nuevo-Cortés (D.M.)
- Villarpando (D.M.)
Padre Las Casas
- La Siembra (D.M.)
- Las Lagunas (D.M.)
- Los Fríos (D.M.)
Peralta
Pueblo Viejo
- El Rosario (D.M.)
Sabana Yegua
- Ganadero (D.M.)
- Proyecto 2-C (D.M.)
- Proyecto 4 (D.M.)
Tábara Arriba
- Amiama Gómez (D.M.)
- Los Toros (D.M.)
- Tábara Abajo (D.M.)

Population

The following is a sortable table of the municipalities and municipal districts with population figures as of the 2014 estimate.

neighborhoods (Parajes literally places) outside them. The population figures are from the 2014 population estimate.^[2]

Name	Total population	Urban population	Rural population
Azua de Compostela	125,487	88,493	36,994
Estebanía	8,522	4,407	4,115
Guayabal	6,855	3,464	3,391
Las Charcas	12,823	6,173	6,650
Padre Las Casas	42,321	21,965	20,356
Peralta	17,252	5,731	11,521
Pueblo Viejo	13,522	3,825	9,697
Sabana Yegua	24,051	6,944	17,107
Tábara Arriba	25,212	12,644	12,568
Yayas de Viajama	22,201	15,761	6,440
Azua province	298,246	169,407	128,839