Vallegrande
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.jpg) Plaza Principal in Vallegrande |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 10,158 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 51 | ||
| height | 2041 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0801-0103-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 29 ′ S , 64 ° 6 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Vallegrande Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Vallegrande |
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Vallegrande (Spanish for "large valley") is a small town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Vallegrande is the administrative seat of the province of the same name and central place in the municipality of Vallegrande and is located at an altitude of 2041 m on the upper reaches of the Río La Cienega .
geography
Vallegrande is located in a valley of the Cordillera Oriental on the edge of the eastern Andes. It has a mild climate due to its protected location in a spacious valley . The economic focus is on agriculture (fruit, corn, cotton , rice and tobacco ) and livestock . Vallegrande is a regionally important market place.
The average annual temperature of the region is 18 ° C (see Vallegrande climate diagram) and fluctuates only slightly between 15 ° C in July and 20 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is almost 700 mm, with a clear dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 25 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with more than 100 mm monthly precipitation.
history
Vallegrande was founded by the Spanish in 1612 as Ciudad de Jesús y Montes Claros de los Caballeros del Vallegrande . It developed into the urban and cultural center of the region in the 18th and 19th centuries and around 1900 had around 25,000 inhabitants. In the 20th century, Vallegrande lost its importance with the rise of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
In 1967 the revolutionary Che Guevara was captured and shot in nearby La Higuera . The body was brought to Vallegrande and exhibited in front of journalists and photographers. Several photographs were taken, including the well-known shot of Freddy Alborta . Then Guevara was secretly buried on the airfield. After one of those involved broke his silence, the remains of Che Guevara were found in 1997 , exhumed and taken to Cuba . His companion Haydée Tamara Bunke Bíder (* 1937, † 1967) received an honorable funeral in Vallegrande in the presence of President René Barrientos Ortuño .
Transport network
Vallegrande is 240 km southwest of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department of the same name. From Santa Cruz, the paved highway Ruta 7 leads west to Cochabamba and after 187 km via Samaipata and La Angostura reaches the small town of Mataral . From there the Ruta 22 branches off in a southerly direction and reaches Vallegrande after 53 km .
The city is also connected to the regional flight network via an airport.
population
The population of the village has increased by around half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 6 341 | census |
| 2001 | 7801 | census |
| 2012 | 10 158 | census |
sons and daughters of the town
- Julio Terrazas Sandoval (1936–2015), Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- Edson Hurtado (1980-), writer, poet, journalist and LGBTI activist
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tamara Bunke # underground struggle in Bolivia
- ^ 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.
Web links
- Relief map of the Vallegrande region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 8.75 MB)
- Municipio Vallegrande - General Maps No. 70801
- Municipio Vallegrande - detailed map and population data (PDF 1.51 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )