La finca
| La finca | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 923 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 298 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0201-0401-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 27 ′ S , 62 ° 58 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Ignacio Warnes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Warnes |
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La Finca is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
La Finca is the most populous place in the canton of Tocomechi in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Warnes in the province of Ignacio Warnes in the western part of the Santa Cruz department. The village is located at an altitude of 298 m between Río Grande (22 kilometers east) and Río Piraí (27 kilometers west). The closest larger towns are El Barrial and Villa Barrientos , both in the canton of Tocomechi.
geography
La Finca is located in a 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
La Finca is located 50 kilometers by road northeast of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
The 1,657-kilometer Ruta 4 highway , which crosses the country in a west-east direction, runs through Santa Cruz from Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border to Puerto Suárez in the Brazil- Bolivia- Paraguay triangle . 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 south of Warnes, a road branches off from Ruta 4 ("Carretera del Norte") in a north-easterly direction, which after 25 kilometers reaches the town of La Finca .
population
The population of the village has increased by about a fifth in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 751 | census |
| 2001 | 1 247 | census |
| 2012 | 923 | 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
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ 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 (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Cotoca region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 6.55 MB)
- Municipio Warnes - General Maps No. 70201
- Municipio Warnes - detailed map and population data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 819 kB)
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities ( Spanish ) (PDF; 4.99 MB)