Municipio San Javier (Beni)

Municipio of San Javier
Basic data
Population (state) ; - population density	5202 population (2012 census) ; 1 population / km²
Post Code	08-0102
Telephone code	(+591)
surface	9,937 km²
height	150 m
Coordinates	14 ° 20 ′ S , 64 ° 30 ′ W Coordinates: 14 ° 20 ′ S , 64 ° 30 ′ W
	Municipio of San Javier
	Municipio of San Javier
politics
Department	Beni
province	Cercado
Central place	San Javier
climate
	; Climate diagram Trinidad

The municipality of San Javier is a district in the Beni department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

The municipality of San Javier is the northern of the two municipalities of the province of Cercado . It is bordered to the north by the province of Mamoré , to the north-west by the province of Yacuma , to the west by the province of Moxos , to the south by the municipality of Trinidad , to the south-east by the province of Marbán , to the east by the department of Santa Cruz , and to the north-east by the Iténez Province .

The largest localities in the municipality are San Pedro Nuevo with 357 inhabitants in the northwestern part of the municipality and the administrative seat of San Javier with 395 inhabitants ( 2012 ), both on the right bank of the Río Mamoré .

geography

The municipality of San Javier is located in the Bolivian part of the Amazon basin and is characterized by a tropical, hot and humid climate all year round (see Trinidad climate diagram). The annual average temperature is around 26 ° C, with the monthly average temperatures between June / July at 23 ° C and October / December at 28 ° C only slightly different.

The annual precipitation is 2000 mm and is therefore more than twice as high as the precipitation in Central Europe. Maximum values of around 300 mm in the rainy season from December to February contrast with low values of around 50 mm in the short dry season from June to August.

population

The population of the municipality has more than doubled over the past two decades:

1992 : 2,175 inhabitants ( census )
2001 : 2,690 inhabitants (census)
2012 : 5,202 inhabitants (census)

The population density of the municipality at the 2012 census was 0.5 inhabitants / km², the proportion of the urban population is 0 percent.

The life expectancy of newborns in 2001 was 62.3 years; the literacy rate among those over 19 is 87.1 percent, namely 90.7 percent for men and 81.5 percent for women ( 2001 ).