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Aspects Associate Economic
 
The economically active population (PEA) of the Carchi it works for the development and progress of Province and his composition for activities is distributed of the following way:

• Agriculture 47.00 %
• Services 32.00 %
• Industry 12.00 %
• Vacated 9.00 %

Where the agricultural, commercial sectors and of transport they constitute the productive titles in which the Province it has major levels of competition. The sectors of Commerce and Services mostly concentrate in the Canton Tulcán.
 
Demography
In the last forty years the population provincial almost the double increased, the population urban it multiplied; for almost three times and the rural one it increased in 50 %. The process of urban development it has been increasing: 41 % of the population resides to the moment in cities; in 1950 only 27 % was living in the urban area. This fact exercises pressure on the resources and the services of energy, drinkable water, sewerage, etc.

Education
In accordance with information provided by the national System of Educational Statistics of the Ecuador, the Province of the Carchi it counts with 431centros of education, to which 86 belong to pre-primary education, 288 primary ones, 50 of secondary education and 7 of higher education.
 
Level Educational
Classrooms / School
Student/School
Pupil / Teacher
Would pre-occupy first place
2,2
14
18
Would occupy first place
4,3
20
20
Come up
16,7
14
11
 
In the primary sector an average of 4,3 classrooms exists for School and 20 pupils for classroom and for teacher, this it is due to the fact that a good number of schools exists unidocentes with one or two classrooms where all the grades work students, this happens especially in the rural sector.
 
Level Educational
Not. of Teachers
Personnel Not teachers
Total
Would pre-occupy first place
143
29
172
Would occupy first place
1.233
121
1.354
Come up
1.128
252
1.380
 
As for The number of employees teachers and administrative in the pre-primary, primary sectors and I come up, they give or whole of 2.906 employees. In what it recounts to the higher education, they work around of 7 centers of higher education with approximately 1.200 students and 150 teachers and employees.
 
Health
In accordance with information provided by the Direction of Health of the Carchi and the centers of attention it medicates, in the Province approximately 61 units exist of Health between public and private, with the presence of 103 general practitioners and 54 odontológicos and specialists.
 
Units of Health
Not. of Units
Population / Unit
Occupied Doctors
Occupied Nurses
Provincial Hospital
1
152.939
15
21
Cantonal Hospital
3
50.768
7
6
Center of Health
1
152.939
5
2
Subcentre
29
5.252
29
29
Position of Health
21
7.253
0
0
Deprived
6
25.384
47
12
Whole
61
103
70
 
The valuation of provincial infant mortality in the sector urban s of 30.9 % and in the rural sector it is 45.5 %. The chronic undernourishment in children /as 5-year-old minors it is 57.5 %.
 
Mining and Industries
Until the year 1983 it had not registered no mining establishment. In 1985 they were located mining deposits of metals, not metallic minerals and quarries. As for the industrial development of the province, this one is still incipient. Some exist twelve companies in the branches of food and drinks, tobacco. The Dairymaid Carchi deserves to stand out in the agribusiness with a wide network of distribution in the Country.

The Frontier Commerce
The commerce of the Carchi is sustained principally in frontier commerce with the department of Nariño of Colombia. In the past, the contraband of products it was an institution tolerated by the authorities. At present the agreements of integration between two countries and the fall of tariffs have legalized what earlier was an illegal commerce. Great diversity of products are an object of the frontier commerce. Ecuador it exports especially agricultural products and in minor it climbs some manufactured products.

At present the frontier commerce diminished considerably for reasons of the dolarización, for what one is managing the creation of a special zone of free commerce for the Province of the Carchi.

Migration
The migratory phenomenon in the Province is high, the fundamental causes so that this situation appears they are: the search of sources of work and of education Superior. Generally the migration goes to the cities of Ibarra and Quito, whereas on a global scale the youth travels to other countries as Colombia, The United States and Spain. Of equal way it is worrying the process of urban development that has growing, especially in the city of Tulcán for the migration of the field to the city.

Agriculture
The agriculture is the economic base of this one province that is a region very well provided for the agriculture because his soils are fertile; of the most important agricultural cultures one must emphasize that it swallows it that is cultivated especially in the cantons of Tulcán and Montúfar. The Carchi it is a Province mumps and it occupies one of the first places in the national production of this tuber. Other important cultures are: Corn, wheat, vetch, sugar-cane, bean, broad bean, mellocos, avocado, green pepper, and fruits as papaya, pineapple, etc.

• The Carchi has approximately of 130.000 Hectares (36 % of the provincial surface) for the agricultural use.
• Approximately 90.000 hectares he devotes himself to the culture of grasslands for cattle of dairy priority and approximately 21.000 hectares he devotes himself to cultures of cycle I cut.
• The principal products of cycle I cut and the percentage of the production carchense with regard to the national one they are:
• It swallows 28.71 %
• Bean 17.24 %
• soft Corn sweetcorn 6.95 %
• tender Vetch 47.46 %
• Onion of bulb 3.22 %
• Fattened 5.34 %
The summary of this numeral appears in the following one I fit:
 
Products
Area cultivated for ha.
Yield for ha.
Production Provincial in TM
Pope
21.628
14.58 Tm.
316.270,00
Dry Bean
7.808
0.81 Tm.
6.319,62
Soft Corn
4.745
0.92 Tm.
4.365,40
Tender Vetch
2.984
1.81 Tm.
5.401,04
Onion Bulb
2.963
8.18 Tm.
53.867,34
Barley
2.917
1.14 Tm.
3.325,38
Wheat
2.638
1.29 Tm.
3.403,02
Tender Broad bean
1.588
2.25 Tm.
3.573,00
Corn (sweetcorn)
1.346
2.80 Tm.
3.768,80
Vetch Dries
863
0.53 Tm.
457,40
 
Cattle
National and foreign experts have established that the plateaus of the Carchi constitute ideal zones for the upbringing of cattle, both of milk and of meat. The Canton Tulcán is the fact that more surface it has dedicated to grasslands and also that of major population bovine. The quality of the cattle has improved thanks to introduction of pure studs. In the principal ones estates the dairy production realizes it in technical form, for which the average of liters of milk of cow per day it is higher than the average national.

The principal products that the agribusiness prepares milk jug they are: fresh cheese, mature cheese, yogurt and creams. Next we have the provincial estimation rancher:
 
SPECI
NUMBER OF ANIMALS
Bovine
100.000
Pigs
26.000
Equine
14.000
Sheep
6.000
Caprinos
1.000
 
Road Provincial System
The Province of the Carchi has as principal axis to Pan-American route, concesionada for 20 years to the construction Company Panavial, it initiates in the North in the International Bridge of Rumichaca and it ends in South in the Bridge of river Chota.

As secondary axis the route is asfaltada that divides of the city of Bolivar, raisin for the sectors of García Moreno, The angel, San Isidro, It looks and ends in Mask.

Axes of the third order that have layer of rolling of ballasted, they are the following ones:
- Route Tulcán - Rocks Blancas. - Crosses the sectors of Tufiño, skirts of the hill Chilis, Maldonado, Chical and Quinshul.
- Route Julio Andrade - River Cuastumal. - is part of the tracing of the Interoceanic route.
- Route Tulcán - The ángel. - crosses the sector of the moorland and the Lagoons of the Flying one.
- Route Piquiucho - Monte Olivo. - crosses the populations of Cauldron, San Rafael and the Avocado.

Communication Social
The communication is the fundamental base of the development of the peoples, it is this reason for which as it has gone growing and modernizing the province, also different mass media have been appearing social that has contributed to the orientation and education of the carchenses in topics of local, national interest and international.

In the Province of the Carchi, the private company is the financier and proprietress of the mass media, so much printed matter, radio and television. It others join means of national and international character that they contribute with the local information in the ambiences Ecuadorians. Also radio several are listened of the Department of Nariño.
 
Mass media
Quantity
Radio Modulated Frequency (FM)
7
Radio Modulated Largeness (AM)
2
Open Television
1
Television for Cable
2
printed Means
5
Total
17
 
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