Canandoa
| Comunidad Canandoa | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1025 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 208 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1005-0100-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 31 ′ S , 63 ° 43 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Obispo Santistevan Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram San Pedro |
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Comunidad Canandoa is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Comunidad Canandoa is the fifth largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) San Pedro in the Obispo Santistevan province . The place is at an altitude of 208 m in the wetland between the Río Piraí and Río Grande . The municipality of San Pedro with about 10,000 inhabitants is a colonization area and is used intensively for agriculture.
geography
Comunidad Canandoa is located in a tropical humid climate in front of the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental . The region has only been opened up in the last few decades and was covered by subtropical rainforest before colonization , but is now mostly cultivated land .
The mean average temperature of the region is almost 25 ° C (see climate diagram San Pedro), the monthly values fluctuate between 21 ° C in June / July and 26 to 27 ° C from October to March. The annual precipitation is almost 1500 mm, the monthly precipitation is abundant and lies between 50 mm in July and 250 mm in January.
Transport network
Comunidad Canandoa is 193 kilometers by road north of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From the center of Santa Cruz, the paved highway Ruta 4 leads 57 kilometers north to Montero , from there Ruta 10 further north via General Saavedra , Mineros and Fernández Alonso to San Pedro and further north-west via the villages of Litoral and Hardeman to San Juan del Piraí and on to Comunidad Canandoa .
population
The population of the village has more than quadrupled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 273 | census |
| 2001 | 748 | census |
| 2012 | 1 025 | census |
Due to the immigration of indigenous populations from the Altiplano , which has been promoted by politics since the 1960s , the region has a not inconsiderable proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of San Pedro 54.9 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 September 25, 2013 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 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 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; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Yotau region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.86 MB)
- Municipio San Pedro - General Maps No. 71005
- Municipio San Pedro - detailed map and population data (PDF; 690 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.12 MB) ( Spanish )