Sanandita
| Sanandita | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 712 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 847 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0301-0201-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 41 ′ S , 63 ° 37 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | Gran Chaco Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Yacuiba |
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Sanandita is a town in the Tarija Department in the southern part of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Sanandita is the most populous town in the canton Caiza "J" in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Yacuiba in the province of Gran Chaco . The place is at an altitude of 847 m about 35 kilometers north of the Bolivian-Argentine border. The mountain range of Serranía Aguaragüe runs directly to the west of the village in a north-south direction , which here, with the Cerro Sanandita, reaches a height of 1753 m .
geography
Sanandita is located on the southeastern edge of the Bolivian Andes chain in the lowlands of the subtropical Gran Chaco , which extends over northwest Paraguay , northeast Argentina and southeast Bolivia.
The climate is subtropical with hot humid summers and moderately warm and dry winters. The annual average temperature is almost 22 ° C, the average monthly values fluctuate between 15 ° C in June / July and 26 ° C in January (see Yacuiba climate diagram). Annual precipitation is just under 1100 mm, with a four-month dry season from June to September with monthly precipitation below 15 mm and a humidity period from December to March with 160–200 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Sanandita is located at a distance of 309 kilometers by road southeast of Tarija , the capital of the department, and nineteen kilometers north of the border town of Yacuiba .
From Tarija, the Ruta 11 trunk road leads east over the cities of Entre Ríos and Palos Blancos for 250 kilometers to Villamontes . There it meets the north-south running Ruta 9 , which leads south via Sachapera to Yaguacua and further via Villa El Carmen (Caipitandi) , Palmar Chico and Yacuiba to the Argentine border. At Yaguacua a country road leads northwest and reaches the center of Sanandita after six kilometers.
population
The population of the place has decreased by about a third in the last two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 005 | census |
| 2001 | 942 | census |
| 2012 | 712 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a certain proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Yacuiba 17.6 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 Tarija 2001 (PDF file; 3.05 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Villamontes region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.68 MB)
- Municipio Yacuiba - General Maps No. 60301
- Municipio Yacuiba - detailed map and population data (PDF; 407 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Tarija - social data of the provinces and municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )