San Juan de Lomerío
San Juan de Lomerío | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 398 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 338 m | |
Post Code | 07-0302-0104-6001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 17 ° 5 ′ S , 61 ° 30 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Santa Cruz | |
province | José Miguel de Velasco | |
climate | ||
![]() Climate diagram San Ignacio de Velasco |
San Juan de Lomerío is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
San Juan de Lomerío is the fourth largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) San Miguel in the province of José Miguel de Velasco . The place is located at an altitude of 338 m in the Chiquitania region , a landscape that is still unpopulated in parts between Santa Cruz and the Brazilian border. To the north-east of San Juan extends largely untouched bushland, to the south-west to the chain of lakes of the Laguna San Joaquin on the Río San Pablo , the region is used extensively for agriculture.
geography
San Juan de Lomerío is located in the Bolivian lowlands in the semi-humid climate of the warm tropics .
The monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly over the course of the year between 20.8 ° C in June and 26.8 ° C in October, with an almost constant 26 ° C between September and March. The annual mean temperature is 24.5 ° (see climate diagram San Ignacio de Velasco).
The long-term average annual rainfall is 1257 mm. Three quarters of the precipitation falls in the rainy season from November to March, while in the dry season in the arid months of June, July and August there is hardly any 30 mm per month.
Transport network
San Juan de Lomerío is located in a north-easterly direction 268 kilometers by road from Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the paved road Ruta 4 / Ruta 9 heads east via Cotoca to Puerto Pailas , crosses the Río Grande and divides fourteen kilometers later in Pailón : Ruta 4 heads east to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border, the Ruta 9 north to Guayaramerín . From Ruta 9 branches off 48 kilometers northeast of Pailón in Cuatro Cañadas, the unpaved Ruta 39 in an easterly direction, crosses almost one hundred kilometers of new colonization area to the Río San Pedro and after another 65 kilometers reaches San Juan de Lomerío . The Ruta 39 then crosses unpopulated bushland in a northeastern direction and ends after another 78 kilometers in San Miguel .
population
The population of the village has decreased by a fifth in the past decade:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | no detailed data | census |
2001 | 498 | census |
2012 | 398 | census |
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.
Web links
- Relief map of the San Jose de Chiquitos region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.71 MB)
- Municipio San Miguel - General Maps No. 70302
- Municipio San Miguel - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.31 MB) ( Spanish )
- Indocumentación en las comunidades indígenas de la provincia Velasco Fundación TIERRA. Santa Cruz 2005 (PDF; 1.3 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )