Ipitá

Ipitá is a village in the department of Santa Cruz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Ipitá is the central place of the Canton Ipitá district ( bolivian: Municipio) Gutierrez in the province of Cordillera. The village lies at an altitude of 923 m at one of the eastern foothills of the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental, which is east of the village in a north-south direction rises to 1500 m altitude.

Geography

Ipitá is in the range of the tropical climate, the six-month period humidity ranges from November to April and the dry season from May to October.

The average annual temperature is 23 ° C (see climate chart Gutiérrez ), with 18 ° C from June to July and 25 ° C from October to February. The annual rainfall is just 750 mm, the wettest months are January and February with 135 mm and driest months of July and August, with just under 10 mm.

Traffic network

Ipitá lies at a distance of 205 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 Cabezas after Ipitá and on about Villa Montes Yacuíba according to the Bolivian border to Argentina.

In Ipitá the unpaved Ruta 22 branches off to the north of the Route 9 and runs over 250 kilometers on the way over Masicurí and Valle Grande to Mataral in the province of Florida.

Population

The population of the town has declined in the decade between the last two censuses, about one-sixth:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of the Guarani population in the municipality of Gutiérrez 77.3 % of the population speak the Guarani language.