Santa Martha
| Santa Martha | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1738 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 185 | ||
| height | 610 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0105-0105-0001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 58 ′ S , 63 ° 29 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Andrés Ibáñez Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Santa Cruz |
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Santa Martha is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Santa Martha is the third largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) El Torno in the province of Andrés Ibáñez . The village is located at an altitude of 610 m on the left of the Río Piraí on a tributary of the Río Las Botellas , which flows into the Río Piraí between the towns of El Torno and Santa Rita .
geography
Santa Martha is located in a tropical humid climate on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental . The region was covered by subtropical rainforest before colonization , but is now mostly cultivated land .
The mean average temperature of the region is just under 25 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 1300 mm (see climate diagram Santa Cruz). The monthly average temperatures fluctuate between 20 ° C in July and 28 ° C in December, the monthly rainfall is abundant and is between 40 mm in August and 200 mm in January.
Transport network
Santa Martha is 48 kilometers by road southwest of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From the center of Santa Cruz, the paved highway Ruta 7 leads as a four-lane " Grigota Avenue " in a south-westerly direction via the cities of El Carmen and La Guardia to Santa Rita and on via El Torno, La Angostura , Samaipata and Comarapa to Cochabamba .
At the northern entrance to El Torno, a dirt road branches off to the west from Ruta 7 , crosses the Río Piraí and leads 14 km up the Río Las Botellas to Santa Martha .
population
The population of the village has more than doubled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 752 | census |
| 2001 | 1 640 | census |
| 2012 | 1 738 | census |
Due to the immigration history of the population, the region has a significant proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio El Torno 27.7 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 Santa Cruz 2001 (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Santa Cruz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.88 MB)
- Municipio El Torno - detailed map and population data (PDF; 701 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )