San Juan del Chaco
| San Juan del Chaco | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 219 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| Post Code | 07-0801-0113-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 20 ′ S , 64 ° 12 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Vallegrande Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Trigal |
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San Juan del Chaco is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
San Juan del Chaco is the central place of the canton Chaco in the district (Bolivian Municipio ) Vallegrande in the province of Vallegrande . The village is located just a few kilometers from the main thoroughfare at an altitude of 1772 m on the upper reaches of the Río Ariruma , a left tributary of the Río La Cienega in the Trigal Valley . The valley floodplain ends directly to the west of the village, and the ridges that run here reach heights of up to 2,400 m.
geography
San Juan del Chaco is located in the transition area between the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental in the north and the Cordillera Central in the southwest, and the Bolivian lowlands in the east. The climate in the protected valley location is warm and balanced all year round, not as hot and humid as in the nearby lowlands, but also less mild than in the neighboring municipality of Vallegrande.
The mean average temperature of the region is 22 ° C (see Trigal climate diagram) and fluctuates only slightly between 19 ° C in July and 24 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is around 650 mm, with a dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 25 mm and a humidity period from December to February with 100 to 125 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
San Juan del Chaco is located at a distance of 277 kilometers by road southwest of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Santa Cruz, the paved highway Ruta 7 leads west to Cochabamba and after 187 kilometers via Samaipata and La Angostura reaches the small town of Mataral . From there the Ruta 22 branches off in a southerly direction and after 28 kilometers reaches Trigal and after another 25 kilometers the provincial capital Vallegrande . Two kilometers south of Trigal, a country road branches off to the west and leads via San Juan del Chaco, five kilometers away , to Moro Moro , 37 kilometers away , a central place in the neighboring Moro Moro district .
population
The population of the village has decreased slightly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 248 | census |
| 2001 | 227 | census |
| 2012 | 219 | 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
- Municipio Vallegrande - General Maps No. 70801
- Municipio Vallegrande - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.51 MB; Spanish)
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB; Spanish)