La Angostura (Santa Cruz)

La Angostura is a village in the department of Santa Cruz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

La Angostura is the central place of the Canton La Angostura in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) El Torno in the province of Andrés Ibáñez. The village lies at an altitude of 640 m on the left bank of the river between the towns of El Torno Pirai and Samaipata.

Geography

La Angostura is located in the humid tropical climate on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental. The region was covered before colonization by subtropical rainforest, but today it is mostly cultivated land.

The mean average temperature of the region is 24 ° C, the annual precipitation is 950 mm (see climate chart La Angostura ). The monthly average temperatures vary between 20 ° C in July and 26 ° C in December and January, the monthly rainfall is productive from November to March and higher than 100 mm, the climate from June to September is arid with rainfall less than 40 mm.

Traffic network

La Angostura is located at a distance of 46 kilometers of road south west of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From the center of Santa Cruz from the paved highway Ruta 7 performs as a four-lane " Grigota Avenue " in a southwesterly direction through the towns of El Carmen, La Guardia and El Torno to La Angostura, then continue on and Comarapa Samaipata to Cochabamba.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to nearly three times:

Due to immigration history of the population, it presents a significant proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of El Torno 27.7 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.