San Juan de Yapacani
| San Juan de Yapacani | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 5401 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 82 | ||
| height | 288 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0404-0101-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 18 ′ S , 63 ° 51 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Ichilo Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Santa Fe de Yapacaní |
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San Juan de Yapacaní is a small town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
San Juan de Yapacaní is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) San Juan de Yapacaní in the province of Ichilo . The city is located at an altitude of 288 m on the right bank of the Río Yapacaní , fifteen kilometers below the mouth of the Río Surutú .
geography
San Juan de Yapacani lies east of the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental on the edge of the Bolivian lowlands.
The annual average temperature of the region is around 24 ° C (see climate diagram Santa Fe de Yapacaní) and fluctuates only marginally between almost 21 ° C in June and July and a good 26 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is about 1800 mm, with monthly precipitation between 60 mm in July and average maximum values of 200 to 300 mm in the summer months from December to February.
Transport network
To the southeast of San Juan de Yapacaní, at a distance of 133 kilometers by road, is Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From San Juan an unpaved road leads 13 kilometers south to Santa Fe de Yapacaní , which is on the 1,657 kilometer long Ruta 4 highway , which crosses the entire country from Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border in a west-east direction and to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border. From Santa Fe it is 15 kilometers east to Buena Vista , another 48 kilometers to Guabirá near Montero , and another 57 kilometers south to Santa Cruz.
population
The city's population has more than doubled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 2,344 | census |
| 2001 | 5 236 | census |
| 2012 | 5 401 | census |
San Juan originated as a colony of Japanese immigrants. Due to immigration from the Altiplano in the middle of the 20th century, the region has a certain proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of San Juan de Yapacaní 25.8 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 March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 file; 5.00 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Santa Cruz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.88 MB)
- Municipio San Juan de Yapacaní - General Maps No. 70404
- Municipio San Juan de Yapacaní - detailed map and population data (PDF 2.04 MB) (Spanish)
- Municipio San Juan de Yapacaní - Information from the Santa Cruz Departmental Government (Spanish)
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) (Spanish)
- Article on Japanese Immigration to San Juan (Spanish)