Colonia California
| Colonia California | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Population (state) population density |
1287 inhabitants (2012 census) 6 inhabitants / km² |
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| surface | 210.85 km² | ||
| height | 260 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0502-0103-0001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 26 ′ S , 61 ° 32 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Chiquitos Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Pailón |
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Colonia California is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
California is a rural scattered settlement in the canton of Pailón in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Pailón in the province of Chiquitos . The settlement extends over an area of 210 square kilometers at an altitude of about 260 m in the intensively used agricultural area and is inhabited by 210 families. It consists of the amalgamation of various Mennonite small communities that make their living by farming and raising livestock.
geography
California lies in the Chiquitania region between the alluvial plains of the Río Piraí and Río Grande in the west and the Chiquitos hill country in the east. The climate is semi-humid, the temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly during the day and during the year.
The annual average temperature is 24 to 25 ° C, with monthly average temperatures between almost 27 ° C in December and January and below 21 ° C in June and July (see climate diagram Pailón). The annual precipitation is around 950 mm, the dry season from July to September contrasts with a pronounced humidity period from November to February, in which the monthly values reach up to 140 mm.
Transport network
California is located 211 kilometers by road east of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the paved highway Ruta 4 / Ruta 9 heads east via Cotoca to Puerto Pailas , crosses the Río Grande and splits 14 kilometers later in Pailón . From here the Ruta 4 leads 587 kilometers via Cañada Larga , Tres Cruces and Pozo del Tigre to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border, the Ruta 9 leads 1175 kilometers north to Guayaramerin .
Thirty-one kilometers east of Pozo del Tigre, a dirt road branches off from Ruta 4 to the north, turns east after 25 kilometers and reaches the center of the scattered settlement of California after another seventeen kilometers.
population
The population of the region grew strongly, especially during the development phase through Mennonite immigration in the 1960s to 1980s, meanwhile the number of inhabitants fluctuates strongly from decade to decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | founding | |
| 2007 | 22nd | count |
| 2012 | 1 287 | census |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adalberto Kopp, Las colonias menonitas en Bolivia, page 56 November 2015 ( Spanish )
- ↑ Adalberto Kopp, Las colonias menonitas en Bolivia, page 66 November 2015 ( Spanish )
- ↑ 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.
Web links
- Adalberto Kopp, Las colonias menonitas en Bolivia 2015 ( Spanish )
- The terrible Idyll In: STERN December 17, 2014 (accessed January 21, 2017)
- Relief map of the Cotoca region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 6.55 MB)
- Municipio Pailón - General Maps No. 70502
- Municipio Pailón - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.18 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )
- Proyecto de Innovación Tecnológica Aplicada (PITA) - Menonitas (PDF; 698 kB) ( Spanish )