Chané Magallanes

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Chané Magallanes
Basic data
Residents (state) 686 pop. (2012 census)
height 235  m
Post Code 07-1004-0100-4002
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 16 ° 58 ′  S , 63 ° 14 ′  W Coordinates: 16 ° 58 ′  S , 63 ° 14 ′  W
Chané Magallanes (Bolivia)
Chané Magallanes
Chané Magallanes
politics
Department Santa Cruz
province Obispo Santistevan Province
climate
Climate diagram San Pedro
Climate diagram San Pedro

Chané Magallanes is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Chané Magallanes is the third largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Fernández Alonso in the province of Obispo Santistevan . The village is located at an altitude of 235  m in the wetland between the Río Piraí and Río Grande on the Río Chané . The Municipio Fernández Alonso with about 13,000 inhabitants is a colonization area and is used intensively for agriculture.

geography

Chané Magallanes is located in the humid tropical climate off 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

Chané Magallanes is 117 kilometers by road from 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 a regional road continues north over 58 kilometers via General Saavedra , Mineros and Fernández Alonso to Chané Independencia and Chané Magallanes and on to San Pedro and Hardeman .

population

The population of the village has been subject to certain fluctuations over the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 689 census
2001 817 census
2012 686 census

Due to the immigration of indigenous people 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 Fernández Alonso 52.0% of the population speak the Quechua language.

Individual evidence

  1. 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo
  2. 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo
  3. 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. 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; 12.2 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo

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