Cuatro Cañadas

Cuatro Cañadas is a small town in the department of Santa Cruz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Cuatro Cañadas is a central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Cuatro Cañadas in the province Ñuflo de Chávez. The city lies at an altitude of 264 m eighteen kilometers east of the Bolivian Río Grande in a region that is characterized by development and agricultural colonization in the 20th century.

Geography

Cuatro Cañadas is located in the Bolivian lowlands in the region Chiquitanía, one in vast regions still sparsely populated countryside between Santa Cruz and the Brazilian border. The region's climate is a semi- humid climate of the warm subtropics.

The annual average temperature is about 24 ° C (see climate chart Warnes ), the average monthly temperatures vary during the year only slightly from 20 ° C in the winter months of June and July and 26 ° C from November to February. The annual rainfall is in the long -term average at about 1300 mm, which to February, especially in the rainy season from December with monthly values ​​of up to 150 mm, while barely reach 50 mm from June to September, the monthly rainfall.

Traffic network

Cuatro Cañadas is located at a distance of 109 kilometers of road northeast of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From Santa Cruz from the paved highway Ruta 9 4/Ruta leads eastwards across Cotoca to Puerto Pailas, crossed the Rio Grande and shares fourteen miles later in Pailón. From here, the Ruta 4 about 587 km to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border, the Ruta 9 leads 1175 km north to Guayaramerin. Cuatro Cañadas is located on the Ruta 9, 48 kilometers north of Pailón.

Population

The population of the village has multiplied over the past two decades:

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 Cuatro Cañadas 35.1 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.