La Bélgica

La Bélgica is a country town in the department of Santa Cruz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location

La Bélgica is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Colpa Bélgica in the province of Sara. The city lies at an altitude of 359 m on the left bank of the River Pirai, 32 kilometers above the mouth of the Río Guenda near Portachuelo.

Geography

La Bélgica is located in the humid tropical climate of 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 just under 24 ° C (see climate chart Warnes ), the monthly values ​​vary between 20 ° C in June / July and 26 ° C from November to February. The annual rainfall is about 1300 mm, the monthly rainfall are productive and are between 35 mm and 200 mm in August in January.

Traffic network

La Bélgica lies at a distance of 37 kilometers of road north of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From Santa Cruz from the highway Ruta 4 runs north thirty kilometers after Warnes. Two kilometers before Warnes performs a highway six kilometers west to the Rio Pirai, and after crossing the Pirai Bridge is a road link to south, reaching after three kilometers La Bélgica.

Population

The population of the town has remained relatively constant over the past two decades:

Because of the settlement history of the region has only a low percentage of indigenous population. The largest share in the municipality of Colpa Bélgica has the Quechua population, 12.2 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.