Los Andes (Sara)

Los Andes
Basic data
Residents (state)	1129 pop. (2012 census)
height	228 m
Post Code	07-0602-0103-7001
Telephone code	(+591)
Coordinates	16 ° 53 ′ S , 63 ° 50 ′ W Coordinates: 16 ° 53 ′ S , 63 ° 50 ′ W
	Los Andes
	Los Andes
politics
Department	Santa Cruz
province	Sara Province
climate
	; Climate diagram Santa Rosa del Sara

Los Andes is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Los Andes is the third largest town in the canton of Santa Rosa del Sara in the municipality of Santa Rosa del Sara in the province of Sara . The place is at an altitude of 228 m in the wetland between the Río Barbery west and the Arroyo Negro east of the village.

geography

Los Andes is located east of the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental on the western edge of the Bolivian lowlands. The climate of the region is the fully humid climate of the subtropics with a balanced temperature course throughout the year and also only slight temperature fluctuations during the day.

The mean average temperature of the region is around 24 ° C (see climate diagram Santa Rosa) and fluctuates only slightly between just under 21 ° C in June and July and 26 ° C from November to February. The annual precipitation is more than 1500 mm, the rainy season lasts from October to March and reaches monthly values of over 250 mm.

Transport network

Los Andes is 166 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 Portachuelo and from there further west to Cochabamba and the Chilean border. Ten kilometers west of Portachuelo, a dirt road branches off in a northerly direction from Ruta 4 , which reaches the town of Santa Rosa del Sara after 37 kilometers . From there a dirt road leads in a north-westerly direction, after 20 kilometers passes the two lakes Laguna Juancholo and Laguna Santa Barbara , and after 44 kilometers reaches Los Andes .

population

The population of the village has increased by about half in the decade between the last two censuses:

year	Residents	source
1992	no detailed data	census
2001	742	census
2013	1,129	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.