San Pedro (Santistevan)
| San Pedro | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 4094 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 107 | ||
| height | 223 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1005-0102-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 50 ′ S , 63 ° 29 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Obispo Santistevan Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram San Pedro |
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San Pedro is a country town in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
San Pedro is the central place of the district (Bolivian: Municipio ) San Pedro in the province Obispo Santistevan . The city is located at an altitude of 223 m in the wetland between the Río Piraí and Río Grande . The municipality of San Pedro with about 10,000 inhabitants is a colonization area and is used intensively for agriculture.
geography
The municipality of San Pedro is located in the tropical humid climate in front of the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental . The region has only been opened up in the last few decades and was covered by subtropical rainforest before colonization , but is now mostly cultivated land .
The mean average temperature of the region is almost 25 ° C (see climate diagram San Pedro), the monthly values fluctuate between 21 ° C in June / July and 26 to 27 ° C from October to March. The annual precipitation is almost 1500 mm, the monthly precipitation is abundant and lies between 50 mm in July and 250 mm in January.
Transport network
San Pedro is located 149 kilometers by road from Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From the center of Santa Cruz, the paved road Ruta 4 leads 57 kilometers north to Montero , from there a regional highway Ruta 10 continues north over 92 kilometers via General Saavedra , Mineros and Fernández Alonso to San Pedro and further north-west according to Hardeman .
population
The population of the village has increased by around two thirds in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 2,416 | census |
| 2001 | 2,985 | census |
| 2012 | 4 094 | census |
Due to the immigration of indigenous populations from the Altiplano , which has been promoted by politics since the 1960s , the region has a not inconsiderable proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of San Pedro 54.9 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 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 2001 (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Yotau region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.86 MB)
- Topographic map of the San Pedro region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 8.9 MB)
- Municipio San Pedro - General Maps No. 71005
- Municipio San Pedro - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.66 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.12 MB) ( Spanish )