San José de Chiquitos
San José de Chiquitos (short: San José ) is a small town in the department of Santa Cruz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
San José is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) San José de Chiquitos and capital of the province of Chiquitos and is located in the center of the province at an altitude of 300 m east of the departmental capital of Santa Cruz, with which it is connected by a railway line.
The original Santa Cruz had 1560-1592 about 10 km east of the present town of San José found, before it was moved in 1592 to the west of its current location. Around 1750, the Mission San José de Chiquitos was established at the old location of Santa Cruz.
Geography
South of San José rises a ninety kilometers long ridge that rises to 808 meters between San José and Taperas in Cerro Botija and reached a height of over 600 meters in San Jose. The region's climate is subtropical and subhumid, the level just north of San José is moist and crossed by numerous streams, so that it is agriculturally been barely tapped.
The average annual temperature of the region is 25.5 ° C (see climate chart San José de Chiquitos ), with average monthly temperatures ranging from less than 28 ° C in October and November and below 22 ° C in June. The annual rainfall is 918 mm, the average humidity is 68 percent. The dry season from July to September was offset by a strong moisture from November to March.
Traffic network
San José de Chiquitos is located at a distance of 277 kilometers of road east of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.
By San Jose leads the 1657 km long highway Ruta 4, which crosses in west-east direction the country by the Chilean to the Brazilian border. The road passes over Patacamaya, Cochabamba and Villa Tunari to Santa Cruz and from there on Cotoca and Pailón to San José de Chuiquitos and Roboré to Puerto Suárez.
Population
The population of the town has increased in recent decades to a multiple of:
UNESCO
The city is known by one of the Jesuit Reductions of Chiquitos, which were declared in 1990 a UNESCO World Heritage Site.