Estación San Antonio de Parapetí
Estación San Antonio de Parapetí | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 501 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 620 m | |
Post Code | 07-0702-0400-4004 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 20 ° 1 ′ S , 63 ° 11 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Santa Cruz | |
province | Cordillera Province | |
climate | ||
Climate diagram Camiri |
Estación San Antonio de Parapetí (also Parapitiguaso ) is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Estación San Antonio de Parapetí is the largest town in the Parapetí Grande canton in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Charagua in the Cordillera province . The village is located at an altitude of 626 m between the Voranden chain of the Serranía Charagua in the west, which rises to an altitude of 1349 m at Estación San Antonio , and the wetland of the Bañados de Izozog in the east, on the left, northern bank of the Río Parapetí .
geography
Estación San Antonio de Parapetí is located in the tropical climate area 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
Estación San Antonio de Parapetí is located at a distance of 302 kilometers by road south of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Santa Cruz, the paved road Ruta 9 leads south via Cabezas to Abapó on the banks of the Río Grande and on via Ipitá and Villamontes to Yacuiba on the Bolivian border with Argentina . Five kilometers south of Abapó, Ruta 36 branches off in an easterly direction , which is paved for the first 39 kilometers to San Isidro del Espino and then for a further 114 kilometers of unpaved road via Igmiri , Saipurú and Tapyta to Charagua and further via Machipo and the neighboring area San Antonio de Parapetí leads to Estación San Antonio de Parapetí .
The railway line from Santa Cruz to Yacuiba runs through the village of Estación San Antonio de Parapetí and has a stop for passenger traffic here. From here 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 population of the village has increased by about half in the last two decades:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | 829 | census |
2001 | 775 | census |
2012 | 501 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Guaraní population, in the Municipio Charagua 48.8 percent of the population speak the Guaraní language .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bolivia: passenger train connections
- ↑ 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 June 10, 2015 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ INE social data Santa Cruz 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 Charagua region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 6.23 MB)
- Municipio Charagua - General Maps No. 70702
- Municipio Charagua - detailed map and population data (PDF; 4.28 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )