La Guardia (Santa Cruz)
| La Guardia | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 76,123 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 15 | ||
| height | 499 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0104-0100-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 54 ′ S , 63 ° 20 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Andrés Ibáñez Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram El Torno |
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La Guardia is a medium- sized town in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
La Guardia is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) La Guardia and is located in the province of Andrés Ibáñez at an altitude of 499 m on the right bank of the Río Piraí in the source area of the tributary Quebrada Lavandero . The city's population has more than doubled in the past decade, as La Guardia has been merged with the municipalities of Villa Simón Bolívar , El Carmen , Kilómetro 12 and San José .
geography
La Guardia is located in a tropical humid climate on 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 annual average temperature of the region is around 24 ° C (see El Torno climate diagram), the monthly average temperatures fluctuate between 20 ° C in June and July and 26 ° C from November to February. The long-term average annual precipitation is around 1100 mm, a short dry season from July to September with monthly precipitation of less than 50 mm is offset by an extended humidity period , in which the monthly values sometimes significantly exceed 100 mm from November to March.
Transport network
La Guardia is twenty kilometers by road south-west of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From the center of Santa Cruz, the paved highway Ruta 7 leads as a four-lane " Grigota Avenue " in a south-westerly direction to La Guardia and on via El Torno and La Angostura to Cochabamba .
population
The population of the village has increased more than fivefold in the past four decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 2,337 | census |
| 1992 | 5,468 | census |
| 2001 | 29 745 | census |
| 2012 | 76 123 | census |
Due to immigration from the Altiplano in the second half of the 20th century, the region has a certain proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of La Guardia 17.1 percent of the inhabitants speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Brinkhoff: City Population
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ↑ La Guardia, Villa Simón Bolívar, El Carmen, Kilómetro 12, San José
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 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 Santa Cruz 2001 (PDF file; 5.00 MB)
Web links
- Topographic map of the Santa Cruz region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 9.5 MB)
- Relief map of the Santa Cruz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.88 MB)
- Municipio La Guardia - detailed map and population data (PDF; 756 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio La Guardia - General Maps No. 70104
- Municipio La Guardia - detailed map and population data (PDF; 756 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )