Loma Alta (Santa Cruz)
| Loma Alta | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1168 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 281 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0602-0100-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 4 ′ S , 63 ° 29 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Sara Province | ||
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 Climate diagram San Pedro |
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Loma Alta is a town in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Loma Alta is the most populous town in the canton of Palometas in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Santa Rosa del Sara in the province of Sara . The village lies at an altitude of 281 m in the alluvial plains between Río Piraí and Río Yapacaní .
geography
Loma Alta is located in a tropical humid climate in front of 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.
Transport network
Loma Alta is 112 kilometers by road north of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the asphalted highway Ruta 4 leads via Warnes and Montero to the provincial capital Portachuelo and from there further west to Cochabamba and the Chilean border. On the eastern outskirts of Portachuelo, a dirt road branches off in a northerly direction, which reaches Loma Alta after 37 kilometers. From Loma Alta, a country road leads in a south-westerly direction to the central town of the district, Santa Rosa del Sara, 30 kilometers away .
population
The population of the village has increased by more than a third in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 843 | census |
| 2001 | 1 110 | census |
| 2012 | 1 168 | census |
Due to the immigration of indigenous populations from the Altiplano , which has been encouraged by politics since the 1960s , the region has a not inconsiderable proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Santa Rosa 28.6 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 Santa Cruz 2001 (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Santa Cruz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.88 MB)
- Municipio Santa Rosa del Sara - General Maps No. 70602
- Municipio Santa Rosa del Sara - detailed map and population data (PDF; 972 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )