Cabezas (Cordillera)

Cabezas is a country town in the department of Santa Cruz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Cabezas is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Cabezas in the province of Cordillera. The city lies at an altitude of 469 m on the left bank of the Río Grande, which has finally reached the Bolivian lowlands here.

Geography

Cabezas is located on the southeastern edge of the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental in the area of ​​sub-tropical climate and is characterized by a six-month dry season that extends from May to October.

The average temperature of the region is about 24 ° C (see climate chart Cabezas ), the monthly values ​​vary between 20 ° C in June and July and 27 ° C in December and January. The annual precipitation is 800 mm, wettest months are January and February with 130 mm and driest months of July and August with less than 20 mm long-term average.

Traffic network

Cabezas is located at a distance of 124 kilometers of road south of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From Santa Cruz the paved highway Route 9 leads south across the Río Seco to Cabezas and on about Abapo, Ipitá and Villa Montes Yacuíba according to the Bolivian border to Argentina.

Cabezas is also holding point of the railway line from Santa Cruz to Yacuíba. From Abapo from there passenger train connections to the north as in the south, which carry passengers in about three and a half hours to Santa Cruz and in thirteen hours after Yacuíba.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to approximately twice:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region still has a certain percentage of indigenous population in the municipality of Cabezas 9.0 percent of the population speak the Quechua language, and 6.8 percent of the Guaraní language.