Saipina

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

Location in near space

Saipina is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Saipina in the province of Manuel María Caballero. The city lies at an altitude of 1365 m in a fertile valley of the Río Comarapa, which flows coming from Comarapa below Saipina in the Río Mizque.

Geography

The municipality Saipina located on the southeastern edge of the mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental, which forms the transition from the Bolivian lowlands to the high mountain ranges of the Andes. The climate is semarid and a typical diurnal climate where the average temperature differences between day and night are more pronounced than between seasons.

The annual average temperature is about 26 ° C and varies only slightly between 23 ° C in July and 28 ° C from November to January (see climate chart Saipina ). The annual rainfall is slightly more than 500 mm and reached only in the summer months of January and February monthly values ​​of just over 100 mm; the dry season, with values ​​well below 30 mm from April to October is unfavorable long for agricultural cultivation.

Traffic network

Saipina lies at a distance of 245 kilometers of road west of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From Santa Cruz from the paved highway Ruta 9 via 14 km in a southwesterly direction to the junction of Ruta 7 at El Carmen. The Ruta 7 via the towns of La Angostura and Samaipata after Comarapa and on to Cochabamba. About 22 kilometers before Comarapa branches a east-west extending connecting road to the Aiquile that reaches over the village Pulquina on winding 26 km Saipina.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to more than double:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, it presents a certain amount of Quechua population in the municipality of Saipina 34.2 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.