Mapaiso de las Piedades
| Mapaiso de las Piedades | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1647 pop. (2001 census) | ||
| height | 383 m | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 45 ′ S , 63 ° 4 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Andrés Ibáñez Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Santa Cruz |
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Mapaiso de las Piedades is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Mapaiso de las Piedades was the third largest town in the canton of Cotoca in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) of Cotoca in the province of Andrés Ibáñez and is located at an altitude of 383 m in a north-easterly direction outside the city limits of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department. With effect from the 2012 census, Mapaiso de las Piedades is no longer listed as an independent locality, but has now become either a district of the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra or the city of Cotoca .
geography
Mapaiso de las Piedades is located in the Bolivian lowlands east of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central . The region has a tropical climate with a balanced temperature profile.
The annual average temperature of the region is 24 ° C, the monthly average values fluctuate only slightly between 20 ° C in July and 26 ° C in December (see Santa Cruz climate diagram). The annual precipitation is about 1000 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 50 mm in the months of July and August and over 150 mm in January.
Transport network
Mapaiso de las Piedades is located sixteen kilometers by road northeast of Santa Cruz.
From the center of Santa Cruz, “Av. Virgen de Cotoca “thirteen kilometers in an easterly direction to the city limits of Santa Cruz. The highway Ruta 4 leads from here to the east over the cities Cotoca , Puerto Pailas , Pailón , San José de Chiquitos and Roboré far as Puerto Suárez on the border with Brazil .
At the city limits of Santa Cruz, a dirt road branches off in a northerly direction and after another three kilometers reaches the city of Mapaiso de las Piedades .
population
In the last decade of the last century, the population of the place has increased by about three times:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 575 | census |
| 2001 | 1647 | census |
Due to the historically increased population immigration , the region has a certain proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Cotoca 17.8 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 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 Cotoca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 355 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Cotoca - General Maps No. 70102
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.12 MB) ( Spanish )