San Antonio de Parapetí

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San Antonio de Parapetí
Basic data
Residents (state) 837 pop. (2012 census)
height 626  m
Post Code 07-0702-0201-0001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 20 ° 0 ′  S , 63 ° 11 ′  W Coordinates: 20 ° 0 ′  S , 63 ° 11 ′  W
San Antonio de Parapetí (Bolivia)
San Antonio de Parapetí
San Antonio de Parapetí
politics
Department Santa Cruz
province Cordillera Province
climate
Climate diagram Camiri
Climate diagram Camiri

San Antonio de Parapetí is a town in the Santa Cruz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

San Antonio de Parapetí is the second largest town in the Parapetí Grande canton in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Charagua in the Cordillera province . The village lies at an altitude of 626  m between the Voranden chain of the Serranía Charagua in the west, which rises to an altitude of 1349  m near San Antonio , and the wetland of the Bañados de Izozog in the east, on the left, northern bank of the Río Parapetí .

geography

San Antonio de Parapetí is part of the tropical climate in the South American Gran Chaco , the six-month wet season extends from November to April and the dry season from May to October.

The annual average temperature is 23 ° C (see Camiri climate diagram), with 17 to 18 ° C from June to July and over 26 ° C from November to December. The annual precipitation is almost 900 mm, the wettest months are December and January with 175 mm and the driest months July and August with almost 10 mm.

Transport network

San Antonio de Parapetí is 300 kilometers by road south of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department of the same name.

From Santa Cruz, the paved road Ruta 9 leads south via Cabezas to Abapó on the banks of the Río Grande and on via Ipitá and Villamontes to Yacuiba on the Bolivian border with Argentina . Five kilometers south of Abapó, Ruta 36 branches off in an easterly direction , which is paved for the first 39 kilometers to San Isidro del Espino and then for a further 114 kilometers of unpaved road via Igmiri , Saipurú and Tapyta to Charagua and on via Machipo to San Antonio de Parapetí leads.

population

The population of the village has more than tripled in the last two decades:

year Residents source
1992 252 census
2001 343 census
2012 837 census

Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a significant proportion of Guaraní population, in the Municipio Charagua 48.8 percent of the population speak the Guaraní language .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. INE social data Santa Cruz 2001 (PDF; 5.2 MB)

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