Chane Independencia

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

Location in near space

Chane Independencia is the second largest town in the county ( bolivian: Municipio) Alonso Fernández in the province Obispo Santistevan. The city lies at an altitude of 236 m in the wetland area between the rivers Rio Pirai and Rio Grande. The municipality Fernández Alonso with about 13,000 inhabitants, is the colonization area and is used for intensive agriculture.

Geography

Chane Independencia is located in the humid tropical climate of the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental. The region has been developed only in recent decades and was covered before colonization by subtropical rainforest, but today it is mostly cultivated land.

The mean average temperature of the region is close to 25 ° C (see climate chart San Pedro), the monthly values ​​vary between 21 ° C in June / July and 26 to 27 ° C from October to March. The annual rainfall is nearly 1500 mm, the monthly rainfall are productive and are between 50 mm and 250 mm in July in January.

Traffic network

Chane Independencia is located 115 kilometers by road from Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From the center of Santa Cruz leads the paved highway Ruta 4 over 57 kilometers to the north to Montero, from there a regional road further north than 58 kilometers above General Saavedra, Mineros and Fernández Alonso after Chane and on to San Pedro and Hardeman.

Population

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

Because of the 1960s funded by the immigration policy indigenous people of the Altiplano, it presents a significant proportion of the Quechua population in the municipality of Alonso Fernández 52.0 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.