Santa Fe de Yapacaní
| Santa Fe de Yapacaní | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 8454 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 59 | ||
| height | 304 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0402-0102-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 24 ′ S , 63 ° 50 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Ichilo Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Santa Fe de Yapacaní |
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Santa Fe de Yapacaní is a small town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Santa Fe de Yapacaní is the largest city in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) of San Carlos in the Ichilo Province . The city is located at an altitude of 304 m on the right bank of the Río Yapacaní at the mouth of the Río Surutú , seven kilometers east of the central town of Yapacaní .
geography
Santa Fe de Yapacani lies to the east of the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental on the edge of the Bolivian lowlands.
The annual average temperature of the region is around 24 ° C (see climate diagram Santa Fe de Yapacaní) and fluctuates only marginally between almost 21 ° C in June and July and a good 26 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is about 1800 mm, with monthly precipitation between 60 mm in July and average maximum values of 200 to 300 mm in the summer months from December to February.
Transport network
To the southeast of Santa Fe de Yapacaní, at a distance of 120 kilometers by road, is Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
Santa Fe de Yapacaní is located on the 1,657-kilometer Ruta 4 highway , which crosses the entire country from Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border in a west-east direction and leads to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border. It leads via Cochabamba and Villa Tunari to Santa Fe de Yapacani and on via Santa Cruz and Roboré to Puerto Suárez. The road is completely paved from the Chilean border to Pailón, only further on is it unpaved.
population
The city's population has roughly doubled over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 4 029 | census |
| 2001 | 5 880 | census |
| 2012 | 8 454 | census |
Due to immigration from the Altiplano in the middle of the 20th century, the region has a certain proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of San Carlos 23.8 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 March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 Santa Cruz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.88 MB)
- Municipio San Carlos - General Maps No. 70402
- Municipio San Carlos - detailed map and population data (PDF; 805 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )