Sacaba

Sacaba (more precisely, Villa de San Pedro de Sacaba ) is a major city in the Cochabamba Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia. The city is the second largest city to Cochabamba Cochabamba the region and one of the fastest growing cities in Bolivia. Founding date of the city is the 29th Juni in 1761.

Location in near space

Sacaba is the seat of government of the province of Chapare, central location in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Sacaba. The city lies at an altitude of 2719 m on the southern edge of the Cordillera de Cochabamba in the eastern part of the plain of Cochabamba.

Geography

Sacaba is located on the western edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental in a valley region midway between the Altiplano and the Chapare lowlands, which is also referred to as a region eternal spring.

The climate is warmgemäßigt and has a mean average temperature of nearly 18 ° C (see climate chart Cochabamba ), the monthly values ​​fluctuate while only slightly between 14 ° C in June / July and about 20 ° C from October to December. The annual rainfall is only 450 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September, with monthly rainfall less than 10 mm, and a brief humidity from December to February with an 90-120 mm monthly rainfall.

Traffic network

Sacaba lies at a distance of 16 kilometers of road east of the city of Cochabamba.

By Sacaba the highway Ruta 4, which crosses with a length of 1,657 kilometers, the entire country in West - East direction runs. The road begins in the west at Tambo Quemado to the Chilean border and reached after 392 kilometers Sacaba. The road continues east across Santa Cruz to Puerto Suarez in the Brazilian border. Apart from the last 700 kilometers to the east, the road is paved.

Population

The population of the city is exploding, especially in the 1980s and 1990s and the city has to grow within a few decades to the big city:

Despite the high degree of urbanization, the region still has a high percentage of Quechua population, in the municipality of Sacaba 65.2 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.

Economy

Most residents of Sacaba work in the city of Cochabamba. For locally based industries include food and shoe production, among other things The local breweries have Sacaba Posted as a city, "in the beer ( chicha ) never run out ."

Policy

Sacaba was the scene of violent riots against the destruction of coca cultivation in 2002, as a consequence of Evo Morales, leader of the Cocalero movement, party leader of the MAS, and since 2006 President of the country of Bolivia, had to give up his seat in the Bolivian Congress. The closure of the coca market in Sacaba and subsequent street protests led to several deaths on both sides.

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