Saipina
| Saipina | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 4090 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 108 | ||
| height | 1365 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1302-0100-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 6 ′ S , 64 ° 35 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Manuel María Caballero Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Saipina |
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Saipina is a country town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Saipina is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Saipina in the province of Manuel María Caballero . The city is located at an altitude of 1365 m in a fertile basin of the Río Comarapa , which flows from Comarapa below Saipina into the Río Mizque .
geography
The municipality of Saipina is located on the southeastern edge of the Cordillera Oriental mountain range , which forms the transition from the Bolivian lowlands to the high mountain ranges of the Andes. The climate is semarid and a typical daytime climate , in which the mean temperature differences between day and night are more pronounced than between the seasons.
The annual average temperature is about 26 ° C and fluctuates only slightly between 23 ° C in July and 28 ° C from November to January (see Saipina climate diagram). The annual precipitation is a little more than 500 mm and only reaches monthly values of just over 100 mm in the summer months in January and February; the dry season with values well below 30 mm from April to October is unfavorably long for agricultural cultivation.
Transport network
Saipina lies at a distance of 245 kilometers by road west of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the paved road Ruta 9 leads over 14 kilometers in a south-westerly direction to the junction of Ruta 7 at El Carmen . The Ruta 7 leads via the cities of La Angostura and Samaipata to Comarapa and on to Cochabamba . About 22 kilometers before Comarapa, an east-west connecting road branches off to Aiquile , which reaches Saipina via the village of Pulquina on a winding 26 kilometers .
population
The population of the village has more than doubled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 788 | census |
| 2001 | 2,394 | census |
| 2012 | 4090 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a certain proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Saipina 34.2 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 Santa Cruz 2001 (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Municipio Saipina - Information from the Gobierno Autónomo Departamental ( Spanish )
- Relief map of the Aiquile region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.35 MB)
- Municipio Saipina - General Maps No. 71302
- Municipio Saipina - detailed map and population data (PDF; 627 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.12 MB) ( Spanish )