Hardeman, Santa Cruz

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

Location in near space

Hardeman is the second largest town in the county ( bolivian: municipality ) in the province of San Pedro Obispo Santistevan. The city lies at an altitude of 212 m in the wetland area between the rivers Rio Pirai and Rio Grande. The municipality of San Pedro with about 10,000 inhabitants, is the colonization area and is used for intensive agriculture.

Geography

Hardeman 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

Hardeman is located at a distance of 160 kilometers of road north of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From the center of Santa Cruz leads the paved highway Ruta 4 about 57 km north to Montero, from there a regional highway continues north 103 kilometers above General Saavedra, Mineros and Fernández Alonso after Hardeman.

Population

The population of the city has increased in the past two decades to nearly twice:

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 San Pedro 54.9 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.