In the 2024 census, it had an estimated population of 3.1 million, making it the most populated department. Its capital city is Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The department is one of the wealthiest departments in Bolivia, with huge reserves of natural gas. Besides, it has experienced the highest increase of economic growth during the last 50 years in Bolivia and South America. According to the current Constitution, the highest authority in the department lies with the governor. The former figure of prefect was appointed by the President of the Republic till 2005, when the prefect for the first time was elected by popular vote to serve for a five-year term. In 2010 the first governor was elected according to the implementation of autonomy after a struggle for almost a decade by the people of Santa Cruz. More information...
According to PR-model, santacruz.gob.bo is ranked 65,159th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 6,115th in Spanish Wikipedia.
The website is placed before euronatur.org and after mr1-kossuth.hu in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
