Juan Latino

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Juan Latino
Basic data
Residents (state) 983 pop. (2012 update)
height 324  m
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 17 ° 27 ′  S , 63 ° 13 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 27 ′  S , 63 ° 13 ′  W
Juan Latino (Bolivia)
Juan Latino
Juan Latino
politics
Department Santa Cruz
province Ignacio Warnes Province
climate
Climate diagram Warnes
Climate diagram Warnes

Juan Latino was a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Juan Latino was the central place of the canton Juan Latino in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Warnes in the province Ignacio Warnes in the western part of the department Santa Cruz. The village is located at an altitude of 324  m two kilometers east of the north flowing Río Piraí , 18 km above the mouth of the Río Guendá . Since the 2012 census, Juan Latino is no longer listed as an independent town, but is now part of the city of Warnes .

geography

Juan Latino is located in the tropical humid climate in front of the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental . 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

Juan Latino is 40 kilometers north of the capital Santa Cruz and 17 kilometers south of the city of Montero .

Juan Latino over the 1,657 km long leads highway Ruta 4 , which crosses the country from west to east direction of Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border to Puerto Suárez in the border triangle Brazil -Bolivien- Paraguay . Coming from the west, the road leads via Cochabamba , Villa Tunari and Montero to Warnes , and then on via Santa Cruz and Roboré to Puerto Suárez and across the border to Corumbá, Brazil .

Seven kilometers north of Warnes, an unpaved country road branches off from Ruta 4 in a westerly direction and reaches Juan Latino after three kilometers.

population

In the decade between the 1992 and 2001 censuses, the population of the village more than tripled:

year Residents source
1992 272 census
2001 647 census

In the region, the Quechua are numerically the most important indigenous people , in the municipality of Warnes 13.5 percent of the inhabitants speak the Quechua language.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ World Gazetteer
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  3. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  4. ↑ INE social data Santa Cruz 2001 (PDF file; 5.0 MB)

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