Mairana

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

Location in near space

Mairana is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Mairana in the province of Florida. The city is located in the eastern Andes Mountains at an altitude of 1330 m in a long valley between the foothills of the Cordillera Oriental, on the right bank of the Río Quirusillas.

Geography

Mairana is located in the transition zone between the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central in the west and the Bolivian lowlands to the east. The climate is due to the sheltered valley less hot and humid than the nearby lowlands.

The mean average temperature of the region is 21 ° C (see climate chart Mairana ) and varies only slightly between 18 ° C in July and about 23 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is about 750 mm, with only a weak dry season from May to July month rainfall below 30 mm, and a humidity season from December to February, 110-120 mm monthly rainfall.

Traffic network

Mairana lies at a distance of 136 kilometers of road southwest of the capital of the department of Santa Cruz.

By Mairana leads the 488 km long highway Ruta 7, which connects Santa Cruz with Cochabamba. The paved Ruta 7 via La Guardia, La Angostura and Samaipata to Mairana and then continue on Comarapa to Cochabamba.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by more than two-thirds:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region still has a certain amount of Quechua population in the municipality of Mairana 24.3 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.