Urubichá
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 Road map of Urubichá |
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| Residents (state) | 3848 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 116 | ||
| height | 220 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1502-0100-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 15 ° 38 ′ S , 63 ° 5 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Guarayos Province | ||
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 Climate diagram Concepción |
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Urubichá is a country town in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Urubichá is the central place of the Municipio Urubichá in the province of Guarayos in the northwestern part of the Santa Cruz department. The city is located at an altitude of 220 m on the right bank of the north-flowing Río Blanco , which flows into the Río Iténez / Rio Guaporé , which forms the border between Brazil and the Bolivian northeast over long distances .
geography
Urubichá lies in the Moxos plain ( Spanish : Llanos de Moxos), a more than 100,000 km² flood savannah in the northern lowlands of Bolivia. The region's climate is a semi-humid climate of the warm tropics .
The mean average temperature of the region is around 25 ° C (see Urubichá climate diagram) and varies only marginally between 22 ° C in June and July and 27 ° C from October to February. The annual precipitation is about 1,150 mm, with a weak dry season from June to September with monthly precipitation below 45 mm, and a significant humidity period from November to March with monthly precipitation between 140 and 200 mm.
Transport network
Urubichá is 326 kilometers by road north of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the asphalt national road Ruta 9 leads together with the Ruta 4 first in an easterly direction via Cotoca to Puerto Pailas , crosses the Río Grande and separates fourteen kilometers later in Pailón . From here the Ruta 9 leads 230 kilometers north to Ascención de Guarayos and on to Guayaramerín in the far north of the country. On the northern outskirts of Ascención, a dirt road branches off in a north-easterly direction and reaches Urubichá after 35 kilometers .
population
The population of the village has increased by around half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 2 586 | census |
| 2001 | 3 302 | census |
| 2012 | 3 848 | census |
Due to the centuries-old regional population structures, the region has a high proportion of indigenous population , in the municipality of Urubichá 91.0 percent of the population speak regional Chiquitano languages.
Culture
When Jesuit missionaries arrived in the Bolivian rainforest more than 300 years ago , the religious tried to introduce the indigenous population to Christianity with baroque music. Just 76 years were enough to shape the Chiquitano indigenous into masterful baroque musicians, until the Jesuits were banished from all of Latin America in 1767.
Exactly two centuries later, the German priest Walter Neuwirth arrived in Urubichá and continued the work of the Jesuits: he improved the local living conditions, created production cooperatives and schools, and revived the tradition of classical music. Violins have been made in Urubichá again since 1980, and today the rural town has its own youth orchestra, 20 violin makers and a prestigious music school. The youth orchestra has already played at festivals in Bolivia, Venezuela, Chile and Argentina and twice on concert tours in Germany.
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 2001 (PDF; 5.2 MB)
- ↑ High culture from the lowlands ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 526 kB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Ascencion de Guarayos region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.91 MB)
- Municipio Urubichá - general maps No. 71502
- Municipio Urubichá - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.52 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )
- Más de 300 jóvenes de Urubichá se forman en la música barroca FmBolivia October 27, 2011 ( Spanish )
- Cultura viva, esplendor en Urubichá El Deber February 14, 2015 ( Spanish )