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As the census of 1854 is regarded in the country as substantially correct, it has been accepted as a safe basis for all subsequent estimates. In view of this and the partial, though perhaps less accurate, census of recent years, the population is fixed by the best Bolivian authorities, official and otherwise, at about 2,500,000 inhabitants. The population consists of native whites, chiefly descendents of the Spanish settlers, resident Europeans, Mestizos or Cholos (mixed white and Indian), and Indians of pure blood belonging to the Inca races, and in about the following proportions: