Yotaú
| Yotaú | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 2007 population (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 192 | ||
| height | 251 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1503-0200-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 11 ′ S , 63 ° 1 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Guarayos Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram San Ramón |
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Yotaú is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Yotaú is the central place of the Cantón Yotaú in the municipality of El Puente in the province of Guarayos in the northwestern part of the Santa Cruz department. The village is located at an altitude of 251 m in a gently rolling hill country on the course of the Arroyo Santa María , nine kilometers southeast of the Laguna El Socorro , an inland lake that is three kilometers long and wide.
geography
Yotaú 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 and fluctuates only slightly between 21 ° C in June and July and just under 27 ° C from October to December. The annual precipitation is about 1,200 mm, with a short dry season from June to August with monthly precipitation below 40 mm, and a pronounced humidity period from December to March with monthly precipitation up to 200 mm.
Transport network
Yotaú is 264 kilometers by road north of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the asphalt national road Ruta 4 leads 47 kilometers in an easterly direction via Cotoca to Pailón . Here it meets Ruta 9 , which in a northerly direction via San Julián , San Ramón and El Puente reaches Yotaú after 228 kilometers . The Ruta 9 then continues via Ascención de Guarayos and Trinidad in the far northeast of the country to Guayaramerín on the Brazilian border.
population
The population of the village has more than doubled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 810 | census |
| 2001 | 1 267 | census |
| 2012 | 2 007 | census |
Due to the immigration of indigenous people from the Altiplano , which has been encouraged by politics since the 1960s , the region has a not inconsiderable proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of El Puente 22.4 percent of the population speak Quechua .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Concepción climate diagram
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ INE social data 2001 ( Memento from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Yotau region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.86 MB)
- Santa Cruz Department - Social data (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )