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José Manuel Pando
José Manuel Pando
Province
	Nuñu Qullu ("breast mountain") in the Santiago de Machaca Municipality
	Location of José Manuel Pando Province within Bolivia
	Provinces of the La Paz Department
	Coordinates: 17°10′0″S 69°20′0″W / 17.16667°S 69.33333°W
Country	Bolivia
Department	La Paz Department
Municipalities	2
Founded	April 22, 1986
Capital	Santiago de Machaca
Area
• Total	1,976 km2 (763 sq mi)
Elevation	3,893 m (12,772 ft)
Population (2024 census)
• Total	12,092
• Density	6.1/km2 (16/sq mi)
• Ethnicities	Aymara
Time zone	UTC-4 (BOT)
Website	Official website

José Manuel Pando is a province in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. It was founded on April 22, 1986, during the presidency of Víctor Paz Estenssoro. The province was named after José Manuel Pando (1848–1917) who was the president of Bolivia from 1899 till 1904. Its capital is Santiago de Machaca.

The province is situated in the western part of the Bolivian Altiplano, south of Lake Titicaca. To the west it is bordered by Peru, to the southeast by the Pacajes Province and to the northeast by the Ingavi Province.

Geography

Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below:^[2]^[3]

The province is divided into two municipalities which are further subdivided into cantons.

Municipality	Inhabitants (2001) ^[4]	Seat	Inhabitants (2001)
Santiago de Machaca Municipality	4,402	Santiago de Machaca	819
Catacora Municipality	1,735	Catacora	529

^ "Bolivia: Administrative divisions". City Population. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
^ Bolivian IGM map 1:50,000 Berenguela 5742-II
^ IGM map 1:50,000 Sinejavi 5742-III
^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Archived 2009-11-13 at the Wayback Machine (Spanish)