Charagua

Charagua
	; San Miguel Church in Plaza Principal
Basic data
Residents (state)	3496 pop. (2012 census)
rank	Rank 123
height	800 m
Post Code	07-0702-0100-1001
Telephone code	(+591)
Coordinates	19 ° 48 ′ S , 63 ° 12 ′ W Coordinates: 19 ° 48 ′ S , 63 ° 12 ′ W
	Charagua
	Charagua
politics
Department	Santa Cruz
province	Cordillera Province
climate
	; Climate diagram Camiri

Charagua is a country town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Charagua is the central place of the Municipio Charagua in the Cordillera province . The city is located at an altitude of 800 m on the eastern edge of the Sierra Charagua , which rises five kilometers west of the city to heights of 1400 m. At Charagua, the Río Charagua breaks through the north-south ridge of the Serranía Charagua and flows east towards the Río Parapetí , but its water seeps away a few kilometers before it reaches the river.

geography

Charagua is part of the tropical climate in the South American Gran Chaco , the six-month wet season extends from November to April and the dry season from May to October.

The annual average temperature is 23 ° C (see Camiri climate diagram), with 17 to 18 ° C from June to July and over 26 ° C from November to December. The annual precipitation is almost 900 mm, the wettest months are December and January with 175 mm and the driest months July and August with almost 10 mm.

Transport network

Charagua is 260 kilometers by road south of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.

From Santa Cruz the paved national road Ruta 9 leads over 142 kilometers in a southerly direction via Cabezas to Abapó . There the Ruta 36 continues in a southerly direction and reaches the city of Charagua via San Isidro del Espino and continues to Boyuibe .

The city is connected to the national air traffic via a runway east of the city, which has a length of 1200 m. In addition, the railway line from Santa Cruz to Yacuiba passes east of Charagua and has a stop in the Estación Charagua , seven kilometers away . From there there are passenger train connections to the north and south, which take passengers to Santa Cruz and Yacuiba in around eight and a half hours.

population

The city's population has increased by more than a third in the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	2,486	census
2001	2,737	census
2013	3,496	census

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Guaraní population, in the municipality of Charagua 48.8 percent of the population speak Guaraní . Since 2010, representatives of the ethnic group have been trying to work out an autonomous statute to create a self-governing Indian territory ( territorio indígena originario campesino ): Autonomía Indígena Charagua Iyambae .