San Benito, Cochabamba

San Benito is a country town in the Cochabamba Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

San Benito is a central place of the district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the Province of San Benito Punata. The village is situated on the northern edge of a 15 x 25 km wide fertile plain at an altitude of 2724 meters, eight kilometers south of the Cerro Tuti ( 4102 m), the highest elevation between San Benito and Cochabamba, the capital of the department of the same name.

Geography

San Benito is located in the transition zone between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian lowlands to the east.

The mean average temperature of the region is almost 18 ° C (see climate chart Cochabamba ) and varies only slightly between 14 ° C in June and July and 20 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is about 450 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September, with monthly rainfall less than 10 mm, and a humidity from December to February with an 90-110 mm monthly rainfall.

Traffic network

San Benito is located at a distance of 41 kilometers of road southeast of Cochabamba, the capital of the department.

By San Benito leads the paved highway Ruta 7, which leads crosses from here the easternmost Cordillera Oriental on their way to the lowlands and with a total length of 488 kilometers above the cities Tolata and Samaipata to the lowland city of Santa Cruz.

Population

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

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of San Benito 90.7 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.