San Luis (Sara)
San Luis | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 357 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 241 m | |
Post Code | 07-0602-0101-9001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 16 ° 57 ′ S , 63 ° 47 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Santa Cruz | |
province | Sara Province | |
climate | ||
![]() Climate diagram Santa Rosa del Sara |
San Luis is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
San Luis is the sixth largest town in the canton of Santa Rosa in the municipality of Santa Rosa del Sara in the province of Sara . The place is at an altitude of 241 m between the Río Palacios in the west and the Río Piraí in the east.
geography
San Luis is located east of the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental on the western edge of the Bolivian lowlands. The climate of the region is the fully humid climate of the subtropics with a balanced temperature course throughout the year and also only slight temperature fluctuations during the day.
The mean average temperature of the region is around 24 ° C (see climate diagram Santa Rosa) and fluctuates only slightly between just under 21 ° C in June and July and 26 ° C from November to February. The annual precipitation is more than 1500 mm, the rainy season lasts from October to March and reaches monthly values of over 250 mm.
Transport network
San Miguel is 155 kilometers by road north of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the asphalted highway Ruta 4 leads via Warnes and Montero to Portachuelo and from there further west to Cochabamba and the Chilean border. Ten kilometers west of Portachuelo, a dirt road branches off in a northerly direction from Ruta 4 , which reaches Santa Rosa del Sara after 37 kilometers . From there, a dirt road leads in a northwest direction past the two lakes Laguna Juancholo and Laguna Santa Barbara to San Luis and from there in a northwest direction to Los Andes and in a northeast direction to San Miguel .
population
The population of the town has declined between the last two censuses:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | no detailed data | census |
2001 | 425 | census |
2013 | 357 | census |
Due to the immigration of indigenous populations from the Altiplano , which has been encouraged by politics since the 1960s , the region has a not inconsiderable proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Santa Rosa 28.6 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 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 - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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 - 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 ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 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. (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Colonia Hardeman region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 1.4 MB)
- Relief map of the Santa Cruz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.88 MB)
- Municipio Santa Rosa - General Maps No. 70602
- Municipio Santa Rosa - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.08 MB, Spanish)
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB, Spanish)