Municipio San Ignacio de Velasco
| Municipio San Ignacio de Velasco | |||
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 Llanos near San Ignacio |
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| Population (state) - population density |
52,276 inhabitants (2012 census) 1 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 07-0301 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 48,302 km² | ||
| height | 300 m | ||
| Coordinates | 15 ° 0 ′ S , 61 ° 0 ′ W | ||
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| politics
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| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | José Miguel de Velasco Province | ||
| Central place | San Ignacio de Velasco | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram San Ignacio |
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The Municipio San Ignacio is a district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The municipality of San Ignacio is one of three municipalities in the province of José Miguel de Velasco and borders in the north on the department Beni , in the west on the province Ñuflo de Chávez , in the southwest on the municipality San Miguel , in the southeast on the municipality San Rafael and on the province of Chiquitos , and to the east to the Republic of Brazil .
The largest town and administrative seat of the province is the middle town of San Ignacio de Velasco with 23,126 inhabitants (2012 census) in the southern part of the municipality.
geography
The municipality of San Ignacio is located in the Bolivian lowlands in the Chiquitanía region , a partially untouched landscape between Santa Cruz and the Brazilian border.
The region's climate is a semi-humid climate of the warm tropics . The monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly over the course of the year between 20.8 ° C in June and 26.8 ° C in October, with an almost constant 26 ° C between September and March. The annual mean temperature is 24.5 ° C (see climate diagram).
The long-term average annual rainfall is 1257 mm. Three quarters of the precipitation falls in the rainy season from November to March, while in the dry season in the arid months of June, July and August there is hardly any 30 mm per month.
population
The number of inhabitants of the municipality has increased by more than half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 31 594 | census |
| 2001 | 41 412 | census |
| 2012 | 52 276 | census |
The population density in the municipality at the last census of 2012 was 1.1 inhabitants / km², the proportion of the urban population was 44.2 percent.
politics
Results of the elections for the municipal council ( concejales del municipio ) in the regional elections on April 4, 2010:
| electoral legitimate |
electoral participation |
valid votes | FA | ACHA | MAS-IPSP | OICH | ||
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| 17,751 | 15,263 | 11,650 | 7,088 | 2,659 | 1,232 | 671 | ||
| 86.0% | 76.3% | 60.8% | 22.8% | 10.6% | 5.8% |
structure
The municipality of San Ignacio was subdivided in the last census of 2012 in the following three cantons ( cantones ):
- 07-0301-01 Canton of San Ignacio - 149 villages - x inhabitants ( 2001: 35,086 inhabitants )
- 07-0301-02 Canton Santa Ana - 11 towns - 1,765 inhabitants ( 2001: 2,287 inhabitants )
- 07-0301-03 Canton Santa Rosa de la Roca - 26 towns - 4,173 inhabitants ( 2001: 4,039 inhabitants )
Localities
- Canton of San Ignacio
- San Ignacio de Velasco 23,126 pop - Santa Rosa de Roca 1992 pop - San Javierito 957 pop - San Jorge de los Tantalios 734 pop - San Martín 714 pop - Carmen de Ruíz 704 pop - Candelaria de Noza 590 pop . - San Rafaelito de Sutuniquiña pop. 539
- Santa Ana Canton
- Santa Ana de Velasco 704 pop.
- Santa Rosa de la Roca canton
- Tajibo Santa Rita 841 Pop.
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.
- ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010
Web links
- Indocumentación en las comunidades indígenas de la provincia Velasco Fundación TIERRA. Santa Cruz 2005 (PDF; 1.3 MB) ( Spanish )
- Relief map of the San Ignacio de Velasco region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.3 MB)
- Municipio San Ignacio - General Maps No. 70301
- Municipio San Ignacio - detailed map and population data (PDF; 3.6 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5 MB) ( Spanish )