Saavedra (Santa Cruz)

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

Location in near space

Saavedra is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) General Saavedra and is located in the province Obispo Santistevan at an altitude of 279 m in the wetland area between the rivers Rio Pirai and Rio Grande. The municipality of General Saavedra with about 17,000 inhabitants, is the colonization area and is used for intensive agriculture.

Geography

Saavedra is located in the humid tropical climate. 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

Saavedra is located at a distance of 72 kilometers of road from Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From the center of Santa Cruz leads the paved highway Ruta 4 about 57 km north to Montero, from there a regional road in a northeasterly direction about 15 km to Saavedra and on to Mineros, Fernández Alonso and Hardeman.

Population

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

Because of the 1960s funded by the immigration policy indigenous people of the Altiplano, the region has a significant share of the Quechua population, in the municipality of General Saavedra 30.6 percent of the population speak the Quechua language