Yaguaru

Yaguaru
Basic data
Residents (state)	2430 pop. (2012 census)
rank	Rank 166
height	198  m
Post Code	07-1502-0300-3001
Telephone code	(+591)
Coordinates	15 ° 36 ′  S , 63 ° 14 ′  W Coordinates: 15 ° 36 ′  S , 63 ° 14 ′  W
Yaguaru
politics
Department	Santa Cruz
province	Guarayos Province
climate
Climate diagram Concepción

Yaguarú is a country town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Yaguarú is the second largest town in the municipality of Urubichá in the province of Guarayos in the northwestern part of the Santa Cruz department. The city is located at an altitude of 198  m on the left bank of the north-flowing Río Zapoco , which flows further over the Río Blanco into the Río Iténez / Rio Guaporé , which forms the border between Brazil and the Bolivian northeast over long stretches .

geography

Yaguarú is located 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

Yaguarú is located 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 northeast of the country. On the northern outskirts of Ascención, a dirt road branches off in a northerly direction and reaches Yaguarú after 35 kilometers .

population

The population of the village has increased by more than half in the past two decades:

year	Residents	source
1992	1 555	census
2001	1 979	census
2012	2 430	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.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 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.  
2. ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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.  
3. ↑ 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.  
4. ↑ INE social data 2001 ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 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. (PDF file; 5.00 MB)  

Web links

• Municipio Urubichá - general maps No. 71502
• Municipio Urubichá - detailed map and population data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 678 kB)
• Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities ( Spanish ) (PDF; 4.99 MB)