San Miguel (Velasco)
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 Jesuit Reduction Church in San Miguel de Velasco restored by Hans Roth |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 3464 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 126 | ||
| height | 485 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0302-0303-0001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 42 ′ S , 60 ° 58 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | José Miguel de Velasco | ||
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 Climate diagram San Ignacio de Velasco |
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San Miguel is a country city in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
San Miguel is the central place of the Municipio San Miguel in the province of José Miguel de Velasco . The city is located at an altitude of 485 m in the Chiquitania region , a landscape between Santa Cruz and the Brazilian border that is still pristine in parts .
geography
San Miguel 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 Miguel is 435 kilometers by road from Santa Cruz, the capital of the department, in a north-easterly direction.
From Santa Cruz, the paved national road Ruta 4 leads over 57 kilometers in a northerly direction via Warnes to Montero . Here it meets Ruta 10 , which leads to the east over a distance of 279 kilometers and crosses the towns of San Ramón , San Javier and Santa Rosa de Roca as an asphalt road. The road is unpaved for the remaining 60 kilometers to the provincial capital San Ignacio de Velasco , as well as on its 310 kilometers further east along the Brazilian border via San Vicente de la Frontera to San Matías and on to the Brazilian city of Cáceres .
From San Ignacio to the south, the national road Ruta 17 leads south and after 38 kilometers reaches San Miguel de Velasco . The road then continues in a south-easterly direction to San Rafael and San José de Chiquitos , which is connected via Ruta 4 to Santa Cruz in the west and the Brazilian border in the east.
population
The population of the village has been subject to certain fluctuations over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 3 447 | census |
| 2001 | 4,484 | census |
| 2012 | 3,464 | census |
UNESCO world heritage
The city is known for one of the Jesuit reductions of the Chiquitos , which were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1990 .
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.
- ↑ Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos (English)
Web links
- Relief map of the San Ignacio de Velasco region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.30 MB)
- Municipio San Miguel - General Maps No. 70302
- Municipio San Miguel - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.31 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )
- Description of the Jesuit reduction San Miguel de Velasco (UNESCO World Heritage) with pictures and information ( English )