Azusaqui
| Azusaqui | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 486 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 318 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0201-0200-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 26 ′ S , 63 ° 10 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Ignacio Warnes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Warnes |
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Azusaqui is a town in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Azusaqui is the central place of the canton Azusaqui in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Warnes in the province Ignacio Warnes in the western part of the department Santa Cruz. The village is located at an altitude of 318 m ten kilometers east of the north flowing Río Piraí , 18 km above the mouth of the Río Guendá . The closest larger towns are Las Barreras , Juan Latino and Naranjal Don Bosco .
geography
Azusaqui is located in the humid tropical climate of the Bolivian lowlands in front of the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental . The region was covered by subtropical rainforest before colonization , but is now mostly cultivated land .
The mean average temperature of the region is just under 24 ° C (see Warnes climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate between 20 ° C in June / July and 26 ° C from November to February. The annual precipitation is about 1300 mm, the monthly precipitation is productive and lies between 35 mm in August and 200 mm in January.
Transport network
Azusaqui is 43 kilometers by road north of the departmental capital Santa Cruz and 15 km south of the city of Montero .
The 1,657-kilometer Ruta 4 highway , which crosses the country in a west-east direction, runs past Azusaqui from Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border to Puerto Suárez in the Brazil- Bolivia- Paraguay triangle . Coming from the west, the road leads via Cochabamba , Villa Tunari and Montero to Warnes , and then on via Santa Cruz and Roboré to Puerto Suárez and across the border to Corumbá, Brazil .
Nine kilometers north of Warnes, a dirt road branches off from Ruta 4 in an easterly direction and reaches Azusaqui after four kilometers.
population
The population of the village has increased slightly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 453 | census |
| 2001 | 545 | census |
| 2012 | 486 | census |
In the region, the Quechua are numerically the most important indigenous people , in the municipality of Warnes 13.5 percent of the inhabitants speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ INE social data Santa Cruz 2001 ( Memento from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Santa Cruz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.88 MB)
- Municipio Warnes - detailed map and population data (PDF; 819 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )