Las Peñas (Santa Cruz)
| Las Peñas | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1500 inhabitants (2012 census) | ||
| height | 355 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0101-0400-9001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 57 ′ S , 62 ° 58 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Andrés Ibáñez Province | ||
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 Climate diagram Santa Cruz |
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Las Peñas is a town in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Las Peñas is the second largest town in the canton of Paurito in the municipality of Santa Cruz in the province of Andrés Ibáñez . The village is located at an altitude of 355 m, twenty kilometers west of the Río Grande , one of the longest rivers in the Bolivian lowlands.
geography
Las Peñas is located in the Bolivian lowlands east of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central .
The mean average temperature of the region is 24 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 1000 mm (see climate diagram Santa Cruz). The region has a tropical climate with a balanced temperature profile, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between 20 ° C in July and 26 ° C in December. The monthly precipitation is between under 50 mm in the months of July and August and over 150 mm in January.
Transport network
Las Peñas is located at a distance of 34 kilometers southeast of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From the center of the capital, Calle Independencia and Avenida Velarde run two kilometers south. Then follow the Avenida El Trompillo ring road for one kilometer to the east and then turn south-east into Avenida San Aurelio and its continuation, Avenida Paurito. After 20 kilometers, eight kilometers before Paurito , the Carretera Comunidad La Peña branches off in a southerly direction, which leads over the village of Tundy to Las Peñas .
population
The population of the place has increased several times over in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 296 | census |
| 2012 | 1,500 | census |
Due to the historical migration of the population, the region has a certain percentage of Quechua population, in the municipality of Santa Cruz 12.0 percent of the population speak Quechua .
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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 Santa Cruz - General Maps No. 70101
- Municipio Santa Cruz - detailed map and population data (PDF; 807 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )