Villa Serrano

Villa Serrano is a country town in the department of Chuquisaca in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Villa Serrano is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio), the municipality of Villa Serrano and seat of the administration of the province Belisario Boeto. The city lies at an altitude of 2122 m in an endorheic basin on the eastern slopes of the Bolivian Cordillera Central. A few kilometers east of the village is the National Park Río Grande Mascicuri on the border between the departments of Chuquisaca and Santa Cruz.

Geography

Villa Serrano is located between the Altiplano and the Bolivian lowlands to the ridge of the Bolivian Cordillera Central. The climate is warm - temperate and a typical diurnal climate where the temperature differences during the day fluctuate more than the year.

The average annual temperature in the region is more than 17 ° C (see climate chart ), the monthly average values ​​vary between 14 ° C in June / July and 19 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is 640 mm and has four arid months from May to August on with monthly values ​​below 10 mm, and a significant humidity from December to February month rainfall between 100 and 130 mm.

Transport links

Villa Serrano is located at a distance of 214 kilometers of road east of Sucre, the capital of the department of Chuquisaca.

From Sucre from a section of the 1,000 -kilometer highway Ruta 6 (Bolivia ) results in a southeasterly direction 187 km over the cities Yamparaes, Tarabuco Zudañez and Tomina by Padilla and then on to the big city of Santa Cruz. In Padilla, a road branches off to the north, which continues reached after a further 27 kilometers Villa Serrano and Pucara and Guadalupe to Valle Grande and Mataral.

Population

The population of the city has increased in the past two decades by about two-thirds:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, it presents a certain amount of Quechua population in the municipality of Villa Serrano 29.1 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.