Nuevo Horizonte (Warnes)
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| Residents (state) | 1632 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 270 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0202-0200-8001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 19 ′ S , 62 ° 48 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Ignacio Warnes Province | ||
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 Climate diagram Okinawa I. |
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Nuevo Horizonte is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Nuevo Horizonte is the second largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Okinawa Uno in the Ignacio Warnes province in the western part of the Santa Cruz department. The place is located in the alluvial plain of Río Grande and Río Piraí at an altitude of 270 m on the left, western bank of the Río Grande.
geography
Nuevo Horizonte is located in the tropical humid climate in front of the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental . The region was covered by subtropical rainforest before colonization , but is now mostly cultivated land .
The mean average temperature of the region is a good 24 ° C (see climate diagram Okinawa I), the monthly values fluctuate between 21 ° C in June / July and around 26 ° C from October to March. The annual precipitation is about 1000 mm, the monthly precipitation is productive and lies between 30 mm in July and 175 mm in January.
Transport network
Nuevo Horizonte is located in a north-easterly direction 167 kilometers by road from Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Nuevo Horizonte it is 21 kilometers in a northwest direction to the neighboring city of Okinawa I , then 41 kilometers to Guabirá north of Montero , and from there another 105 kilometers via Montero and Warnes to Santa Cruz.
The 828 kilometer long highway Ruta 10 , which crosses the Bolivian lowlands in an east-west direction, leads through Okinawa I from San Matías on the Brazilian border via Las Petas , San Bartolo de la Frontera , San Vicente de la Frontera , San Ignacio de Velasco and Concepción to Okinawa I and on via Guabirá, Chane Independencia and San Pedro to San Juan del Piraí .
population
The town's population has doubled over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 060 | census |
| 2001 | 1 412 | census |
| 2012 | 1 632 | census |
In the region, the Quechua are numerically the most important indigenous people , in the Municipio Okinawa Uno 11.5 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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 Santa Cruz 2001 (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Cotoca region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 6.55 MB)
- Municipio Okinawa Uno - General Maps No. 70202
- Municipio Okinawa Uno - detailed map and population data (PDF; 623 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )