Nueva Ascención
| Nueva Ascención | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 351 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 219 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1503-0273-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 5 ′ S , 63 ° 15 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Guarayos Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram San Ramón |
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Nueva Ascención is a scattered settlement in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Nueva Ascención is the second largest town in the Cantón Yotaú in the municipality of El Puente in the province of Guarayos in the northwestern part of the Santa Cruz department. The village is located at an altitude of 219 m in a gently rolling hill country along the north flowing Río San Pablo , which in its further course bears the name Río Itonomas and drains to the Río Iténez .
geography
Nueva Ascención is located in 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 about 25 ° C (see climate diagram San Ramón), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly over the course of the year between 21 and 22 ° C in the winter months of June and July with strong cold south winds, and 26 to 27 ° C in October until March. The annual amount of precipitation averages around 1000 mm over the long term, which falls mainly in the wet season from November to March, while the arid months from July to September show monthly values between 25 and 50 mm.
Transport network
Nueva Ascención is 297 kilometers by road north of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the asphalted highway Ruta 4 leads 47 kilometers in an easterly direction via Cotoca to Pailón . Here it meets Ruta 9 , which in a northerly direction via San Julián , San Ramón and El Puente reaches the country town of Yotaú after 228 kilometers . In Yotaú a dirt road branches off in a westerly direction, after thirteen kilometers crosses the Río San Pablo, and then continues for another twenty kilometers in a northerly direction to Nueva Ascención .
population
The population of the village has increased significantly in the past two decades, in the census of 1992 and 2001 it was not yet listed as an independent settlement:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | no detailed data | census |
| 2012 | 351 | census |
Due to the immigration of indigenous people from the Altiplano , which has been promoted by politics since the 1960s , the region has a not inconsiderable proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of El Puente 22.4 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ INE social data 2001 ( Memento from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Yotau region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.86 MB)
- Santa Cruz Department - Social data (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )