San Rafael (Velasco)
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 The Jesuit Reduction Church in San Rafael de Velasco |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 2618 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 158 | ||
| height | 408 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0303-0100-7001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 47 ′ S , 60 ° 41 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | José Miguel de Velasco | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram San Ignacio de Velasco |
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San Rafael is a country city in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
San Rafael is the central place of the municipality of San Rafael in the province of José Miguel de Velasco . The city is located at an altitude of 408 m in the Chiquitanía region , a landscape that is still pristine in parts between Santa Cruz and the Brazilian border.
geography
San Rafael 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 Rafael is located in a north-easterly direction just under 472 kilometers by road from Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.
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 for 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 72 km south via San Miguel to San Rafael and then on to San José de Chiquitos . From there, Ruta 4 continues in an easterly direction to Roboré and Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border.
population
The population of the village has almost doubled over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 1 363 | census |
| 2001 | 2,064 | census |
| 2012 | 2,618 | 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
- Description of the Jesuit reduction Santa Ana de Velasco (UNESCO World Heritage) with pictures and information ( English )
- Relief map of the San Ignacio de Velasco region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.30 MB)
- Municipio San Rafael - General Maps No. 70303
- Municipio San Rafael - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.62 MB Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB Spanish )