Las Marotas
| Las Marotas | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 167 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 244 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1003-0101-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 1 ′ S , 63 ° 22 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Obispo Santistevan Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram San Pedro |
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Las Marotas (also: La Marotas ) is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
location
Las Marotas is a village in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Mineros and is located in the province of Obispo Santistevan at an altitude of 244 m on the left, western bank of the Río Piraí , which flows downstream into the Río Yapacaní .
geography
Las Marotas 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
Las Marotas is located 116 kilometers 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 route 4 turns west towards Cochabamba , while route 10 continues north towards Mineros . There in Mineros the Ruta 37 branches off to the northwest , after seven kilometers it reaches Pueblo Nuevo de Mineros and continues to Villa Rosario . From Pueblo Nuevo, a country road crosses the Río Piraí in a north-westerly direction to Las Marotas, fifteen kilometers away .
population
The population of the village has increased by more than a third in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 121 | census |
| 2001 | 296 | census |
| 2012 | 167 | 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
- ^ 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 2001 (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Santa Cruz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.88 MB)
- Municipio Mineros - General Maps No. 71003
- Municipio Mineros - detailed map and population data (PDF; 710 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )