San Isidro (Santa Cruz)

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

Location in near space

San Isidro is the central place of the Canton of San Isidro in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Comarapa in the province of Manuel María Caballero. The village lies at an altitude of 1577 m on the left bank of the Río San Isidro, which flows coming from below Comarapa of San Isidro in the Río Mizque.

Geography

San Isidro is located on the southeastern edge of the mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental, which forms the transition from the Bolivian lowlands to the high mountain ranges of the Andes. The climate is mild - tempered and a typical diurnal climate, in which the temperature differences between day and night are more pronounced than between seasons.

The average annual temperature is 20 ° C and varies only slightly between 17 ° C in July and nearly 22 ° C in November and December. The annual precipitation of 640 mm has a sufficient amount for agriculture and reaches in the summer months from December to February month values ​​between 100 and 125 mm; the dry season, with values ​​significantly lower than 40 mm from April to October, however, is relatively long.

Traffic network

San Isidro is located at a distance of 223 kilometers of road west of the capital of the department of Santa Cruz.

From Santa Cruz from the paved highway Route 9 leads first 14 kilometers in a southwesterly direction to the junction of Ruta Ruta 7 7 via the towns of La Angostura and San Isidro Samaipata and on about Comarapa to Cochabamba.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by about half:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, it presents a certain amount of Quechua population in the municipality of Comarapa 47.4 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.