Concepción, Santa Cruz
Concepción is a small town in the department of Santa Cruz in the lowlands of the South American Andean Republic of Bolivia.
Location in near space
Concepción is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Concepción and capital of the province Ñuflo de Chavez and is located at an altitude of 500 m about 250 kilometers northeast of the capital of the department of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
Concepción is located on the Laguna Zapocó (also: Represa Zapocó ), a four kilometer long lake in the west of the city.
History
Concepción was founded in 1699 by Jesuits and served as a mission village to catholicization the Chiquito Indians. 1722, the village was moved to its present location in 1745 and had approximately 2,000 inhabitants from strains of the Punasicas, Boococas, Tubasicas, Paicones, Puyzocas, Quimonecas, Quitemos, Napecas, Paunacas and Tapacuracas.
Between 1753 and 1756 the Cathedral of Concepcion was built, which is the center of the emerging town today. In 1766 Concepción lived 713 families with 3276 persons. When in 1767 the Jesuits by the Spanish king Charles III. was banned and the village was passed into secular hands, many residents fled into the woods. In the following century and a half, the population continued to decline significantly, by pestilence and famine, and by the end of the 19th century by carryover of the indigenous population in the rubber tree plantations.
Climate
The region's climate is a semi- humid climate of the warm tropics. The average monthly temperatures vary during the year, only slightly between 21 ° C in June / July and 26.6 ° C in October, where they are almost constant from September to March 25 to 26 ° C. The annual mean temperature is 24.3 ° C.
The annual rainfall is in the long -term average at 1168 mm. Three-quarters of the precipitate fall in humidity from September to March, while falling within the arid months of June, July and August in the dry season, less than 40 mm per month.
Traffic network
Concepción is located at a distance of 288 kilometers of road northeast of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz from the highway Ruta 4 runs north through the towns of Warnes and Montero 58 km after Guabirá where it meets the Ruta 10, which crosses the northeast the Río Grande. After another 71 kilometers, the Ruta 10 joins in the village of Los Troncos with the Ruta 9, and jointly lead the two roads 56 km north to the town of San Ramón. Here, the two roads separate again, and there are again 103 more kilometers on San Javier, to the Ruta 10 Concepción reached and from here to San Matías leads on the Brazilian border.
The city of Concepción has an airport with unpaved runway of 1,900 m in length ( Airport Code CEP).
Population
The population of the city has risen sharply in recent decades:
Sons and daughters of the town
- Hugo Banzer Suárez (1926-2002), Bolivian President 1971-1978 and 1997-2002
- Aurelio Pesoa Ribera (born 1962 ), Bishop in La Paz
UNESCO
The city is known by one of the Jesuit Reductions of Chiquitos, which were declared in 1990 a UNESCO World Heritage Site.