San José del Norte
| San José del Norte | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1155 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 227 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1005-0102-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 51 ′ S , 63 ° 23 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Obispo Santistevan Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram San Pedro |
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San José del Norte is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
San José del Norte is the third largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) San Pedro in the province of Obispo Santistevan . The place is located at an altitude of 227 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
San José del Norte is located in a 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
San José del Norte is located 138 kilometers by road north of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From the center of Santa Cruz the paved highway Ruta 4 leads 57 kilometers north to Montero , from there the Ruta 10 further north via General Saavedra , Mineros and Fernández Alonso to San José del Norte and further northwest via Sagrado Corazón and San Pedro to Hardeman .
In Sagrado Corazón, six kilometers away, the 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 town has almost doubled over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 693 | census |
| 2001 | 985 | census |
| 2012 | 1 155 | 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
- Topographic map of the San Pedro region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 8.9 MB)
- Relief map of the Yotau region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.86 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 )