Colonia Canadiense 2
| Colonia Canadiense 2 | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Population (state) population density |
1202 inhabitants (2012 census) 5 inhabitants / km² |
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| surface | 236.32 km² | ||
| height | 312 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0502-0101-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 56 ′ S , 62 ° 41 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Chiquitos Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Pailón |
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Colonia Canadiense 2 is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Canadiense 2 is a rural scattered settlement in the canton of Pailón in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Pailón in the province of Chiquitos . The settlement extends at a height of about 312 m in the intensively used agricultural area over an area of 236 square kilometers and is inhabited by 227 families. It consists of the amalgamation of various Mennonite small communities that make their living by farming and raising livestock.
geography
Canadiense 2 is located in the Chiquitania region between the alluvial plains of the Río Piraí and Río Grande in the west and the Chiquitos hills 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
Canadiense 2 is 106 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 .
From Pailón a dirt road leads in a south-easterly direction and reaches the center of the scattered settlement California, which is ten kilometers east of the Bolivian Río Grande, after another 45 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | |
| 2001 | 946 | census |
| 2012 | 1 202 | census |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adalberto Kopp, Las colonias menonitas en Bolivia (2015) page 66 ( Spanish )
- ↑ Adalberto Kopp, Las colonias menonitas en Bolivia, page 56 November 2015 ( Spanish )
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2017 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. ( accessed March 27, 2012 )
- ↑ 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. ( accessed April 14, 2014 )
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 )