San Jose de la Capilla
| San Jose de la Capilla | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 502 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 1535 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1301-0102-7001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 6 ′ S , 64 ° 26 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Manuel María Caballero Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Comarapa |
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San José de la Capilla is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
San José de la Capilla is the most populous place in the canton Pulquina in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Comarapa in the province of Manuel María Caballero . The village lies at an altitude of 1535 m in a fertile basin of the Río San Isidro , which flows from Comarapa below San José into the Río Mizque .
geography
San José de la Capilla is located in the transition area between the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera Oriental .
Despite the altitude, the climate is hardly any less hot than in the nearby lowlands, but less humid due to the lower rainfall. The mean average temperature of the region is around 27 ° C (see Comarapa climate diagram) and fluctuates only slightly between 24 ° C in July and 29 ° C in December and January. The annual precipitation is 500 mm, with a dry season from April to October with monthly precipitation below 20 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with 90 to 100 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
San José de la Capilla is 224 kilometers west of the departmental capital Santa Cruz .
From Santa Cruz, the paved highway Ruta 9 leads fourteen kilometers in a south-westerly direction to the junction of Ruta 7 . The Ruta 7 leads via the cities of La Angostura and Samaipata to Comarapa and on to Cochabamba . About 22 kilometers before Comarape, the Ruta 5 branches off in a westerly direction, which leads via the villages of Pulquina , San José and Saipina to Aiquile and on to Sucre and Potosí .
population
The population of the village has grown only marginally in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 424 | census |
| 2001 | 614 | census |
| 2012 | 502 | census |
Due to the historical population distribution, the region has a certain proportion of Quechua population, in the Comarapa municipality 47.4 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 file; 5.0 MB).
Web links
- Relief map of the Vallegrande region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 8.75 MB)
- Municipio Comarapa - General Maps No. 71301
- Municipio Comarapa - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.18 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.12 MB) ( Spanish )