Los Chacos (Warnes)
| Los chacos | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 622 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 276 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0201-0602-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 17 ′ S , 63 ° 1 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Ignacio Warnes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Warnes |
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Los Chacos is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
location
Los Chacos is the central place in the canton of Los Chacos in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Warnes in the Ignacio Warnes province . The village is located at an altitude of 276 m about 30 kilometers west of the Río Grande , with a length of 1,438 kilometers one of the longest rivers in Bolivia.
geography
Los Chacos is located in the humid tropical climate off the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental . The region was covered by subtropical rainforest before colonization , but is now mostly cultivated land .
The mean average temperature of the region is almost 25 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 1300 mm (see Warnes climate diagram). The monthly average temperatures fluctuate between 20 ° C in July and 28 ° C in December, the monthly rainfall is abundant and is between 40 mm in August and 200 mm in January.
Transport network
Los Chacos is 87 kilometers by road northeast of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Santa Cruz, the national highway Ruta 4 runs north via Warnes to the city of Montero . There it meets Ruta 10 , which leads east to Okinawa I and on to San Ignacio de Velasco . After 23 kilometers from Montero, an unpaved country road turns in a south-easterly direction to La Esperanza , four kilometers away , and from there it is another three kilometers to the east to Los Chacos .
population
The population of the village has increased by almost half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 440 | census |
| 2001 | 544 | census |
| 2012 | 622 | census |
Due to the government-sponsored immigration of indigenous populations from the Bolivian Altiplano in the second half of the 20th century , the region has a certain proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Warnes 13.5 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 Warnes - General Maps No. 70201
- Municipio Warnes - detailed map and population data (PDF; 972 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )