Callejas (Santa Cruz)
| Callejas | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 716 pop. (2001 census) | ||
| height | 384 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0102-0102-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 46 ′ S , 63 ° 3 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Andrés Ibáñez Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Santa Cruz |
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Callejas (also: Zona Callejas ) is a town in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Callejas is a village in the canton of Cotoca in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Cotoca in the province of Andrés Ibáñez , and the municipality is located at an altitude of 384 m directly east of the city limits of Santa Cruz , capital of the department, and six kilometers west of Cotoca .
geography
Callejas is located in the Bolivian lowlands east of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central . The region has a tropical climate with a balanced temperature profile.
The annual average temperature of the region is 24 ° C, the monthly average values fluctuate only slightly between 20 ° C in July and 26 ° C in December (see Santa Cruz climate diagram). The annual precipitation is about 1000 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 50 mm in the months of July and August and over 150 mm in January.
Transport network
Callejas is on the Ruta 4 highway , which crosses Bolivia from west to east, from Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border via Cochabamba and Santa Cruz to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border.
From Santa Cruz, the paved highway first reaches Callejas after fourteen kilometers , then continues in an easterly direction to Cotoca and after another 25 kilometers crosses the Rio Grande at Puerto Pailas. From there to the Brazilian border it's 758 kilometers on mostly unpaved roads.
population
The population of the place has increased more than tenfold in the past decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 509 | census |
| 2001 | 716 | census |
| 2012 | no detailed data | census |
Due to the historically increased population immigration , the region has a certain proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Cotoca 17.8 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE social data Santa Cruz 2001 ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 5.00 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Santa Cruz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.88 MB)
- Relief map of the Cotoca region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 6.55 MB)
- Municipio Cotoca - General Maps No. 70102
- Municipio Cotoca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 538 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )