Don Lorenzo, Bolivia

Don Lorenzo is a village in the department of Santa Cruz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Don Lorenzo is the third largest city of Canton Cotoca district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the province of Andrés Ibáñez Cotoca. The city lies at an altitude of 338 m ten kilometers to the west of Río Grande, one of the longest rivers in the Bolivian lowlands.

Geography

Don Lorenzo is located in the Bolivian lowlands east of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central. The region has a tropical climate with a balanced temperature profile.

The average annual temperature of the region is 24 ° C (see climate chart Santa Cruz ), the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 20 ° C in July and 26 ° C in December. The annual rainfall is about 1000 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 50 mm during the months of July and August and about 150 mm in January.

Traffic network

Don Lorenzo is located at a distance of 36 kilometers of road east of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From outer ring road of the city of Santa Cruz Avenue 3 Pasos Al Frente leads in an easterly direction and leaves after twelve miles up the densely populated suburbs of the city. The road then leads 24 kilometers west to Don Lorenzo.

By Don Lorenzo leads out over a twelve- kilometer road in a northerly direction to the paved highway Ruta 4 (Bolivia ) / Route 9, which runs from Santa Cruz on Cotoca to Puerto Pailas, the Río Grande crosses and leads to the city Pailón. There the two highways, the Ruta 4 performs over 587 km to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border, and the Ruta 9 leads 1175 km north to Guayaramerin share.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to about four times:

Due to the historically grown influx of migrants, the region has a certain amount of Quechua population in the municipality of Cotoca 17.8 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.