La Porfía

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La Porfía
Basic data
Residents (state) 813 pop. (2012 census)
height 247  m
Post Code 07-1003-0102-2001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 17 ° 3 ′  S , 63 ° 9 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 3 ′  S , 63 ° 9 ′  W
La Porfía (Bolivia)
La Porfía
La Porfía
politics
Department Santa Cruz
province Obispo Santistevan Province
climate
Climate diagram San Pedro
Climate diagram San Pedro

La Porfía is a town in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

location

La Porfía is a village in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Mineros and is located in the province of Obispo Santistevan at an altitude of 247  m on the left, western bank of the Río Chané , which flows downstream into the Río Piraí .

geography

La Porfía is located in the tropical, humid climate off the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental . The region has only been opened up in the last few decades and was covered by subtropical rainforest before colonization , but is now mostly cultivated land .

The mean average temperature of the region is almost 25 ° C (see climate diagram San Pedro), the monthly values ​​fluctuate between 21 ° C in June / July and 26 to 27 ° C from October to March. The annual precipitation is almost 1500 mm, the monthly precipitation is abundant and lies between 50 mm in July and 250 mm in January.

traffic

La Porfía is 117 km by road north of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.

From the center of Santa Cruz, the paved road Ruta 4 leads north over 60 kilometers to the Guabirá intersection north of the city of Montero . Here the route 4 turns west towards Cochabamba , while further north the route 10 leads towards Mineros and on via Cuatro Ojitos to Fernández Alonso , Chané Independencia and San Pedro . Shortly before passing through Cuatro Ojitos, a country road branches off in an easterly direction, which reaches La Porfía after eight kilometers .

population

The population of the village has almost tripled in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 315 census
2001 819 census
2012 813 census

Due to the immigration of indigenous populations from the Altiplano , which has been forced by politics since the 1960s , the region has a not inconsiderable proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Mineros 23.3 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. INE social data 2001 (PDF; 12.2 MB)

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