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Santa Cruz is one of the nine departments that make up the Plurinational State of Bolivia. Its capital is Santa Cruz de la Sierra. It is located in the east of the country, bordering the north and east with Brazil, to the south with Paraguay, to the southwest with Chuquisaca, to the west with Cochabamba and to the northwest with Beni. With 370 621 km² it is the most extensive department and with a projection of 3,297,483 inhabitants in 2019, it is the first most populated department of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, displacing the Department of La Paz in 2012. It occupies a third of the current Bolivian territory.

It is the sixth largest subnational entity in South America and throughout Latin America, after five states in Brazil and is the largest in the Andean Community. According to official data from the National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia, in 2016 the economy of the entire Department of Santa Cruz reached US $ 9,851 million dollars, which represents 28.93% of the Total Economy of Bolivia. In terms of per capita income, the department closed 2016 with an average of US $ 3,200 per Santa Cruz, which is currently considered the economic center of Bolivia, especially agriculture, forestry, mining and hydrocarbons.