Villa Serrano
| Villa Serrano | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 3298 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 135 | ||
| height | 2122 m | ||
| Post Code | 01-0801-0101-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 7 ′ S , 64 ° 19 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Belisario Boeto Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Villa Serrano |
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Villa Serrano is a country town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Villa Serrano is the central place of the district (Bolivian: Municipio ) Municipio Villa Serrano and seat of the administration of the province Belisario Boeto . The city is located at an altitude of 2122 m in a basin without drainage on the eastern slope of the Bolivian Cordillera Central . A few kilometers east of the village is the Río Grande Mascicuri National Park on the border between the departments of Chuquisaca and Santa Cruz .
geography
Villa Serrano is located between the Altiplano and the Bolivian lowlands in the ridge of the Bolivian Cordillera Central. The climate is warm and temperate and a typical time of day climate , in which the temperature differences fluctuate more strongly during the day than during the year.
The annual average temperature in the region is around 17 ° C (see climate diagram Villa Serrano), the monthly averages fluctuate between 14 ° C in June / July and 19 ° C from November to January. The annual rainfall is 640 mm and has four arid months from May to August with monthly values below 10 mm, and a significant moisture time mm from December to February with monthly rainfall between 100 and 130.
Transport links
Villa Serrano is 214 kilometers east of Sucre , the capital of the Chuquisaca department, by road.
From Sucre, a section of the 1000 km long highway Ruta 6 (Bolivia) leads 187 km in a south-easterly direction via the cities of Yamparáez , Tarabuco , Zudáñez and Tomina to Padilla and then on to the metropolis of Santa Cruz . In Padilla a country road branches off in a northerly direction, which after a further 27 kilometers reaches Villa Serrano and continues via Pucará and Guadalupe to Vallegrande and Mataral .
population
The city's population has increased by around two thirds over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 916 | census |
| 2001 | 2,872 | census |
| 2012 | 3 298 | census |
Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a certain proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Villa Serrano 29.1 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
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.
- ↑ INE social data Chuquisaca 2001 (PDF; 4.4 MB)
Web links
- Municipio Villa Serrano - General Maps No. 10801
- Municipio Villa Serrano - detailed map and population data (PDF; 775 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )