La Guardia, Bolivia

La Guardia is a town in the department of Santa Cruz in the lowlands of the South American Andean Republic of Bolivia.

Location in near space

La Guardia is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) La Guardia and is located in the province of Andrés Ibáñez at an altitude of 499 m on the right bank of the Rio Pirai. The population of the city has increased in the past decade to more than double by La Guardia has been merged with the municipalities of Villa Simón Bolívar, El Carmen, Kilómetro 12 and San Jose.

Geography

La Guardia is located in the humid tropical climate on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental. The region was covered before colonization by subtropical rainforest, but today it is mostly cultivated land.

The average annual temperature of the region is about 24 ° C (see climate chart El Torno), the average monthly temperatures vary between 20 ° C in June and July and 26 ° C from November to February. The annual rainfall is in the long-term average about 1100 mm, with a short dry season from July to September, with monthly rainfall of less than 50 mm is facing an extended humidity time, sometimes significantly beyond the November-March the monthly values ​​over 100 mm.

Traffic network

La Guardia is located at a distance of twenty kilometers of road south west of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From the center of Santa Cruz from the paved highway Ruta 7 performs as a four-lane " Grigota Avenue " in a southwesterly direction to La Guardia and on about El Torno and La Angostura to Cochabamba.

Population

The population of the town has increased over the past four decades, more than five times:

Due to immigration from the Altiplano in the second half of the 20th century, the region has a certain amount of Quechua population in the municipality of La Guardia 17.1 per cent of the population speak the Quechua language.