Municipio of San Juan de Yapacaní
| Municipio of San Juan de Yapacaní |
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| Population (state) - population density |
9191 inhabitants (2012 census) 6 inhabitants / km² |
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| Post Code | 07-0404 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| surface | 1,608 km² | ||
| height | 250 m | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 59 ′ S , 63 ° 58 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Ichilo Province | ||
| Central place | San Juan de Yapacani | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Santa Fe de Yapacaní |
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The Municipio San Juan de Yapacaní is a district in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The municipality of San Juan de Yapacaní is one of four municipalities in the Ichilo Province and includes the eastern areas of the province. It borders the Municipio Yapacaní to the west, the Municipio San Carlos to the south and southeast , the Province of Sara to the east , and the Province of Obispo Santistevan to the north .
The municipality extends between about 16 ° 39 'and 17 ° 34' south latitude and 63 ° 40 'and 64 ° 08' west longitude, its expansion from west to east is up to 25 kilometers and from north to south up to 130 kilometers .
The municipality comprises 37 municipalities ( localidades ), the central place of the municipality is the city of San Juan de Yapacaní with 5,401 inhabitants ( 2012 census ) in the southern part of the district.
geography
The municipality of San Juan de Yapacaní is located on the western edge of the Bolivian lowlands in front of the Cordillera Oriental and borders the Río Yapacaní to the east , the climate is subtropical and humid all year round .
The mean average temperature of the region is around 24 ° C (see climate diagram Santa Fe de Yapacaní) and fluctuates only insignificantly between June and July with 20 to 21 ° C and November to February with 26 to 27 ° C. The annual precipitation is about 1800 mm, the summer months from October to March have mean monthly precipitation between 150 and 300 mm.
history
The municipality of San Juan de Yapacaní obtained its independence from the municipality of Yapacaní by law 2233 on July 26, 2001.
The history of the region is shaped by the immigration of Japanese immigrants between 1955 and 1992, who gradually immigrated in 53 groups. In the mid-1960s, for example, the Japanese population in San Juan de Yapacaní already comprised 262 families with a total of 1,546 people. In addition to the 50 hectares of land transferred to them, each of the Japanese immigrants had start-up capital of at least US $ 1,000. The financial and technical support provided by Bolivia and above all by Japan enabled the colony to be built up quickly in terms of both infrastructure and economic production for the immigrants. Most of the fields assigned to the Japanese were made arable within a few years by slash-and-burn agriculture.
population
The population of the municipality of San Juan de Yapacaní has increased by more than two thirds in the two decades from 1992 to 2012:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 5 280 | census |
| 2001 | 9 131 | census |
| 2012 | 9 191 | census |
| 2017 | 10 299 | Update |
The population density of the district at the last census of 2012 was 5.7 inhabitants / km², the proportion of the urban population was 58.8 percent. The literacy rate among those over the age of 15 rose from 81.4 percent (1992) to 89.6 percent in 2001. The infant mortality rate was 8.0 per cent ( 1992 declined) to 6.4 percent in the 2,001th
94.5 percent of the population speak Spanish , 25.8 percent speak Quechua , 1.0 percent Aymara , 0.9 percent Guaraní , and 0.3 percent speak other indigenous languages . (2001)
26.9 percent of 2,055 households have no access to electricity , 23.3 percent live without sanitary facilities . ( 2012 )
65.7 percent of households have a radio, 57.2 percent a television, 14.9 percent a computer, 7.7 percent Internet access, and 57.4 percent a telephone. ( 2012 )
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 | SAN | MAS-IPSP | ASIP | ||
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| 3,809 | 3,325 | 2,782 | 1,172 | 1,144 | 466 | ||
| 87.3% | 83.7% | 42.1% | 41.1% | 16.8% |
structure
The municipality of San Juan de Yapacaní was subdivided in the last census of 2012 did not continue in cantons ( cantones ).
Localities
- Municipio of San Juan de Yapacaní
- San Juan de Yapacaní 5401 Pop.- La Enconada 996 Pop.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Household and family in San Juan de Yapacaní, a Japanese emigrant colony in Bolivia, by Eva König and Hans Dieter Ölschleger (PDF; 1.8 MB)
- ^ 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 - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2011
- ↑ Acta de computo Nacional Electoral Departamentales, Municipales y Regional 2010
Web links
- Household and family in San Juan de Yapacaní, a Japanese emigrant colony in Bolivia, by Eva König and Hans Dieter Ölschleger (PDF; 1.69 MB)
- Municipio San Juan de Yapacaní - General Maps No. 70404
- Municipio San Juan de Yapacaní - detailed map and population data (PDF 2.04 MB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio San Juan de Yapacaní - Information from the Santa Cruz Departmental Government ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio San Juan de Yapacaní - Population structures 2012 ( Spanish )