Misión Salvatierra
| Misión Salvatierra | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Full name | Misión Monseñor Salvatierra | ||
| Residents (state) | 210 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 201 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1502-0200-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 15 ° 30 ′ S , 63 ° 1 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Guarayos Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Concepción |
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Misión Monseñor Salvatierra (also: Misión Salvatierra ) is a town in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Misión Monseñor Salvatierra is the central place of the canton Misión Monseñor Salvatierra in the municipality of Urubichá in the province of Guarayos in the north-western part of the Santa Cruz department. The municipality is located at an altitude of 201 m on the right, northern bank of the west-flowing Río Negro , which flows further over the Río Blanco into the Río Iténez / Rio Guaporé , which for long stretches the border between Brazil and the Bolivian Northeast forms.
geography
Misión Monseñor Salvatierra is located on the southern edge of the canton, which, with an east-west extension of about 100 kilometers and a north-south extension of about 170 kilometers, covers around 17,000 square kilometers and is almost deserted. The canton is part of the Moxos plain ( Spanish : Llanos de Moxos), a more than 100,000 km² flood savannah in the northern lowlands of Bolivia. The region's climate is a semi-humid climate of the warm tropics .
The mean average temperature of the region is around 25 ° C (see Urubichá climate diagram) and fluctuates only slightly between 21 ° C in June and July and just under 27 ° C from October to December. The annual precipitation is about 1,200 mm, with a short dry season from June to August with monthly precipitation below 40 mm, and a pronounced humidity period from December to March with monthly precipitation up to 200 mm.
Transport network
Misión Monseñor Salvatierra is 344 kilometers by road north of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the asphalt national road Ruta 9 leads together with the Ruta 4 first in an easterly direction via Cotoca to Puerto Pailas , crosses the Río Grande and separates fourteen kilometers later in Pailón . From here the Ruta 9 leads 230 kilometers north to Ascención de Guarayos and on to Guayaramerín in the far northeast of the country. On the northern outskirts of Ascención, a dirt road branches off in a north-easterly direction and reaches Urubichá after 35 kilometers . From there it is another eighteen kilometers to the northeast to Misión Monseñor Salvatierra .
population
The population of the village remained almost unchanged between 1992 and 2001, but decreased by about a third compared to 2012:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 314 | census |
| 2001 | 315 | census |
| 2012 | 210 | census |
Due to the centuries-old regional population structures, the region has a high proportion of indigenous population , in the municipality of Urubichá 91.0 percent of the population speak regional Chiquitano languages.
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 2001 (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Municipio Urubichá - general maps No. 71502
- Municipio Urubichá - detailed map and population data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 678 kB)
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities ( Spanish ) (PDF; 4.99 MB)