Okinawa I

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Okinawa I
Welcome banner in Okinawa I
Welcome banner in Okinawa I
Basic data
Residents (state) 6344 pop. (2012 census)
rank Rank 71
height 257  m
Post Code 07-0202-0101-2001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 17 ° 13 ′  S , 62 ° 54 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 13 ′  S , 62 ° 54 ′  W
Okinawa I (Bolivia)
Okinawa I
Okinawa I
politics
Department Santa Cruz
province Ignacio Warnes Province
climate
Climate diagram Okinawa I.
Climate diagram Okinawa I.

Okinawa I (pronounced: Okinawa Uno) is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Okinawa I is a central place in the Municipio Okinawa Uno in the Ignacio Warnes Province in the western part of the Santa Cruz Department. The city lies in the alluvial plain of the Río Grande and Río Piraí at an altitude of 257  m , between the Río Grande in the east and the Río Pailon in the west, which flows into the Río Piraí below Chane Independencia .

geography

Okinawa I lies in a tropical, humid climate off 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.

history

According to a decree by the Bolivian President Víctor Paz Estenssoro in 1953, a group of Japanese emigrated from the Okinawa Islands by boat to the port city of Santos in Brazil and came to Bolivia by train, where they settled. They had to change their place of residence several times until they established the Okinawa I colony. Even today, the population is Japanese and they maintain their traditions. In 2019, the Japanese princess Mako visited Okinawa I.

Transport network

Okinawa I is located in a northeast direction 146 kilometers by road from Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.

The 828 km long national road Ruta 10 , which crosses the Bolivian lowlands in an east-west direction, runs through Okinawa I from San Matías on the Brazilian border to San Juan del Piraí in the colonization area between Río Piraí and Río Grande . Coming from the east, the road leads 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 Colonia Piraí.

From Okinawa it's 41 kilometers to Guabirá north of Montero , and from there another 105 kilometers via Montero and Warnes to Santa Cruz.

population

The town's population has more than doubled over the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 2 586 census
2001 4 098 census
2012 6 344 census

In the region, the Quechua are numerically the most important indigenous people group , in the Municipio Okinawa Uno 11.5 percent of the population speak Quechua . About 300 Japanese and 600 people of Japanese origin live in Okinawa I.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Okinawa I, un pedazo del sol en el corazón de naciente Suramérica
  2. ↑ Okinawa despide a Mako en su visita al país
  3. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
  4. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  5. ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  6. ↑ INE social data Santa Cruz 2001 (PDF; 5.2 MB)
  7. ↑ Okinawa despide a Mako en su visita al país

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