San Miguel de Velasco

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San Miguel de Velasco
Basic data
Residents (state) 880 pop. (2012 census)
height 471  m
Post Code 07-0302-0303-0002
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 16 ° 42 ′  S , 60 ° 58 ′  W Coordinates: 16 ° 42 ′  S , 60 ° 58 ′  W
San Miguel de Velasco (Bolivia)
San Miguel de Velasco
San Miguel de Velasco
politics
Department Santa Cruz
province José Miguel de Velasco
climate
Climate diagram San Ignacio de Velasco
Climate diagram San Ignacio de Velasco

San Miguel de Velasco is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

San Miguel de Velasco is - together with the central town of San Miguel - part of the vice canton of San Miguel in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) of San Miguel in the province of José Miguel de Velasco . San Miguel de Velasco is located at an altitude of 471  m in the Chiquitania region , a landscape that is still pristine in parts between Santa Cruz and the Brazilian border.

geography

San Miguel de Velasco 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 de Velasco is 435 kilometers by road to the northeast from Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From Santa Cruz, the asphalted highway Ruta 4 leads 57 kilometers northwards 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 highway 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 , from there on via Ruta 4 in a southerly direction to Roboré and Puerto Suárez .

population

The population of the village has changed little in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 977 census
2012 880 census

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
Altarpiece in the Church of San Miguel de Velasco

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