Valle Sánchez
| Valle Sánchez | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 250 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 388 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0201-0101-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 39 ′ S , 63 ° 10 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Ignacio Warnes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Warnes |
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Valle Sánchez is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Valle Sánchez was the second largest town in the district (Bolivian: Municipio ) Warnes in the Ignacio Warnes province in the western part of the Santa Cruz department. Until the 1990s, Valle Sánchez still belonged to the Andrés Ibáñez Province , but was then placed under the administration of the Warnes Province as part of the new building and expansion project of the municipality. The rural town of Valle Sánchez is no longer listed as an independent municipality since the 2012 census, only the rural municipality of Valle Sánchez is independent.
The village is three kilometers west of the airport of Santa Cruz , Viru Viru Internacional , at an altitude of 388 m between the Río Piraí in the west and the "Carretera Al Norte", which separates the village from the Viru Viru airport.
geography
Valle Sánchez is located in the tropical humid climate in front of 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 24 ° C (see Warnes climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate between 20 ° C in June / July and 26 ° C from November to February. The annual precipitation is about 1300 mm, the monthly precipitation is productive and lies between 35 mm in August and 200 mm in January.
Transport network
Valle Sánchez is 17 kilometers north of the departmental capital Santa Cruz and 17 km south of the city of Warnes .
The 1,657-kilometer Ruta 4 highway , which crosses the country in a west-east direction, runs past Valle Sánchez from Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border to Puerto Suárez in the Brazil- Bolivia- Paraguay triangle . Coming from the west, the road leads via Cochabamba , Villa Tunari and Montero to Warnes and then on via Santa Cruz and Roboré to Puerto Suárez and across the border to Corumbá, Brazil .
Twelve kilometers north of the outer ring of Santa Cruz, opposite the main entrance to Viru Viru Airport, a country road branches off from Ruta 4 in a westerly direction and reaches the center of Valle Sánchez after one kilometer.
population
The population of the village has been subject to significant fluctuations over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 920 | census |
| 2001 | 2,477 | census |
| 2012 | 250 | census |
In the region, the Quechua are numerically the most important indigenous people , in the municipality of Warnes 13.5 percent of the inhabitants 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
- Valle Sánchez website ( Spanish )
- Municipio Warnes - General Maps No. 70201
- Municipio Warnes - detailed map and population data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 819 kB)
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities ( Spanish ) (PDF; 4.99 MB)