Sagrado Corazón (Santistevan)
| Sagrado Corazón | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1906 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 226 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1005-0102-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 51 ′ S , 63 ° 26 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Obispo Santistevan Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram San Pedro |
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Sagrado Corazón is a country town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Sagrado Corazón is the second largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) of San Pedro in the Obispo Santistevan province . The city is located at an altitude of 226 m in the wetland between the Río Piraí and Río Grande . The municipality of San Pedro with about 10,000 inhabitants is a colonization area and is used intensively for agriculture.
geography
Sagrado Corazón is located in the tropical humid climate in front of the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental . The region has only been opened up in the last few decades and was covered by subtropical rainforest before colonization , but is now mostly cultivated land .
The mean average temperature of the region is almost 25 ° C (see climate diagram San Pedro), the monthly values fluctuate between 21 ° C in June / July and 26 to 27 ° C from October to March. The annual precipitation is almost 1500 mm, the monthly precipitation is abundant and lies between 50 mm in July and 250 mm in January.
Transport network
Sagrado Corazón is 144 kilometers by road north of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From the center of Santa Cruz, the paved road Ruta 4 leads 57 km north to Montero , from there the Ruta 10 continues north over 92 km via General Saavedra , Mineros and Fernández Alonso to Sagrado Corazón and further north-west via San Pedro according to Hardeman .
In Sagrado Corazón, Ruta 35 branches off in a south-westerly direction, crosses the Río Piraí and leads via Loma Alta and Santa Rosa del Sara to the city of Yapacaní , where the continuation of Ruta 4 provides a road connection to the Bolivian highlands.
population
The population of the village has increased by around half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 378 | census |
| 2001 | 1 490 | census |
| 2012 | 1 906 | census |
Due to the immigration of indigenous populations 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 San Pedro 54.9 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 social data 2001 (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Yotau region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.86 MB)
- Topographic map of the San Pedro region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 8.9 MB)
- Municipio San Pedro - General Maps No. 71005
- Municipio San Pedro - detailed map and population data (PDF; 690 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.12 MB) ( Spanish )