San Carlos (Ichilo)

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

Location in near space

San Carlos is the second largest city and a central location in the district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the Province of San Carlos Ichilo. The city lies at an altitude of 326 m on the right bank of the Río Surutú, the fourteen kilometers downstream flows near Santa Fe de Yapacaní in the Río Yapacaní, one of the headwaters of the Río Mamoré.

Geography

San Carlos is located east in front of the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental on the outskirts of the Bolivian lowlands.

The average annual temperature of the region is about 24 ° C (see climate chart Santa Fe de Yapacaní ) and varies only slightly between nearly 21 ° C in June and July and over 26 ° C from November to January. The annual rainfall is about 1800 mm, with monthly rainfall between 60 mm in July and average maximum values ​​of 200 to 300 mm in the summer months from December to February.

Traffic network

Southeast of San Carlos at a distance of 110 kilometers of road is Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

San Carlos is located on the 1657 km long highway Ruta 4, which leads traversed by Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border in the west-east direction of the entire country and Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border. It leads over Cochabamba, Villa Tunari and Yapacaní to San Carlos and on about Santa Cruz, and Pailón Roboré to Puerto Suárez. The road is completely paved from the Chilean border to Pailón, until later in it is unpaved.

Population

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

Due to the acquisition in the second half of the 20th century, immigration from the Altiplano, it presents a certain amount of Quechua population in the municipality of San Carlos 23.8 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.