Santa Rita (Santa Cruz)
| Santa Rita | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1945 population (2012 census) | ||
| height | 346 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0101-0103-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 57 ′ S , 62 ° 56 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Andrés Ibáñez Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Santa Cruz |
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Santa Rita (also Colonia Menonita Santa Rita ) is an agricultural settlement in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Santa Rita is the largest town in the canton of Paurito in the municipality of Santa Cruz in the province of Andrés Ibáñez . The village is located at an altitude of 346 m, fifteen kilometers west of the Río Grande , one of the longest rivers in the Bolivian lowlands.
geography
Santa Rita is located in the Bolivian lowlands east of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central .
The mean average temperature of the region is 24 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 1000 mm (see climate diagram Santa Cruz). The region has a tropical climate with a balanced temperature profile, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between 20 ° C in July and 26 ° C in December. The monthly precipitation is between under 50 mm in the months of July and August and over 150 mm in January.
Transport network
Santa Rita is located at a distance of 43 kilometers southwest of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the paved national road Ruta 4 / Ruta 9 leads east 18 kilometers to Cotoca and from there on over the Río Grande to the city of Pailón .
In Cotoca, a country road branches off in a southerly direction from trunk road 4/9 and reaches Paurito after sixteen kilometers and Santa Rita after another nine kilometers .
population
The number of inhabitants of the place has changed only insignificantly in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 1 900 | census |
| 2012 | 1 945 | census |
The village is a Mennonite settlement in the agrarian eastern outskirts of the metropolis Santa Cruz.
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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.
Web links
- Relief map of the Cotoca region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 6.55 MB)
- Municipio Santa Cruz - General Maps No. 70101
- Municipio Santa Cruz - detailed map and population data (PDF; 807 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )