Santa Rosa del Sara

Santa Rosa is a town in the department of Santa Cruz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Santa Rosa is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Santa Rosa del Sara Sara in the province. The city lies at an altitude of 276 m in the alluvial plains between Rio Pirai and Rio Yapacaní.

Geography

Santa Rosa is located east of the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental on the western edge of the Bolivian lowlands. The climate of the region is the vollhumide climate of the subtropics with a balanced temperature profile in the annual cycle and also only small temperature variations during the day.

The mean average temperature of the region is about 24 ° C (see climate chart Santa Rosa ) and varies only slightly between nearly 21 ° C in June and July and 26 ° C from November to February. The annual rainfall is more than 1500 mm, the rainy season lasts from October to March and achieved monthly values ​​of about 250 mm.

Traffic network

Santa Rosa del Sara is 122 road miles north of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From Santa Cruz from the paved highway Ruta 4 via Warnes and Montero after Portachuelo and from there west to Cochabamba and to the Chilean border. Ten kilometers west of Portachuelo branches off a dirt road from north of the Route 4, which reaches 37 km Santa Rosa.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by about 70 percent:

Because of the 1960s funded by the immigration policy indigenous people from the Altiplano, it presents a significant proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Santa Rosa 28.6 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.