Cuatro Cañadas
| Cuatro Cañadas | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 8195 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 62 | ||
| height | 264 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1106-0204-8001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 16 ′ S , 62 ° 34 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Province of Ñuflo de Chavez | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Warnes |
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Cuatro Cañadas is a small town in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Cuatro Cañadas is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Cuatro Cañadas in the province of Ñuflo de Chávez . The city is located at an altitude of 264 m, eighteen kilometers east of the Bolivian Río Grande in a region characterized by development and agricultural colonization in the 20th century.
geography
Cuatro Cañadas is located in the Bolivian lowlands in the Chiquitania region , a largely unpopulated landscape between Santa Cruz and the Brazilian border. The region's climate is a semi-humid climate of the warm subtropics .
The annual average temperature is around 24 ° C (see Warnes climate diagram), the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly over the course of the year between 20 ° C in the winter months of June and July and 26 ° C from November to February. The annual amount of precipitation averages around 1300 mm, which falls mainly in the rainy season from December to February with monthly values of up to 150 mm, while from June to September the monthly precipitation barely reaches 50 mm.
Transport network
Cuatro Cañadas is 101 kilometers by road northeast 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 divides fourteen kilometers later in Pailón . From here the Ruta 4 leads 587 kilometers to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border, the Ruta 9 leads 1175 kilometers north to Guayaramerín . Cuatro Cañadas is located on Ruta 9 , 48 kilometers north of Pailón.
population
The population of the village has multiplied in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 841 | census |
| 2001 | 5 182 | census |
| 2012 | 8 195 | census |
Due to the immigration of indigenous populations from the Altiplano , which has been encouraged by politics since the 1960s , the region has a not inconsiderable proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Cuatro Cañadas 35.1 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Winter: Regional development through agricultural colonization? ( Memento from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) 2006
- ↑ The Effect Of Complementary Grazing (PDF; English; 109 kB)
- ↑ 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 February 19, 2017 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.
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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 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 Cotoca region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 6.55 MB)
- Municipio Cuatro Cañadas - General Maps No. 71106
- Municipio Cuatro Cañadas - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.55 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.12 MB) ( Spanish )