General Saavedra
| Saavedra | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic data | |||
| Full name | General Agustín Saavedra | ||
| Residents (state) | 4611 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 96 | ||
| height | 279 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1002-0103-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 14 ′ S , 63 ° 13 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Obispo Santistevan Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Warnes |
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General Saavedra (also just Saavedra ) is a country town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
General Saavedra is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) General Saavedra and is located in the province of Obispo Santistevan at an altitude of 279 m in the wetland between the Río Piraí and Río Grande . The Municipio General Saavedra with around 17,000 inhabitants is a colonization area and is used intensively for agriculture.
geography
General Saavedra is located in a tropical humid climate . The region was covered by subtropical rainforest before colonization , but is now mostly cultivated land .
The mean average temperature of the region is just under 24 ° C (see Warnes climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate between 20 ° C in June / July and 26 ° C from November to February. The annual precipitation is about 1300 mm, the monthly precipitation is productive and lies between 35 mm in August and 200 mm in January.
Transport network
General Saavedra is 72 kilometers by road north of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From the center of Santa Cruz, the paved highway Ruta 4 leads 57 kilometers north to Montero , from there a regional highway leads north-east for 15 kilometers to General Saavedra and on to Mineros , Fernández Alonso and Hardeman .
population
The population of the village has increased by almost two thirds in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 2,918 | census |
| 2001 | 3 663 | census |
| 2012 | 4 611 | census |
Due to the immigration of indigenous people from the Altiplano , which has been promoted by politics since the 1960s , the region has a not inconsiderable proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio General Saavedra 30.6 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 September 25, 2013 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 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 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; 4.99 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Santa Cruz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.88 MB)
- Municipio General Saavedra - General Maps No. 71002
- Municipio General Saavedra - detailed map and population data (PDF; 601 kB) ( Spanish )
- Santa Cruz Department - Social data (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )