San Ignacio de Velasco Municipality
The municipality of San Ignacio is a district ( bolivian: Municipio) in the Department of Santa Cruz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
The municipality of San Ignacio is one of three Municipalities of the province of José Miguel de Velasco, bordered to the north by the Department of Beni, on the west by the province Ñuflo de Chávez, on the southwest by the municipality of San Miguel, on the southeast by the municipality of San Rafael and the province of Chiquitos, and on the east by the Republic of Brazil.
The largest town and administrative center of the province is the town of San Ignacio de Velasco in the southern part of the municipality.
Geography
The municipality of San Ignacio is located in the Bolivian lowlands in the region Chiquitanía, a partially unspoilt countryside between Santa Cruz and the Brazilian border.
The region's climate is a semi- humid climate of the warm tropics. The average monthly temperatures vary during the year, only slightly between 20.8 ° C in June and 26.8 ° C in October, where they are almost constant from September to March at 26 ° C. The annual mean temperature is 24.5 ° C (see climate chart ).
The annual rainfall is in the long -term average at 1257 mm. Three-quarters of the precipitation falling in the rainy season from November to March, while in the dry season hardly fall 30 per mm per month in the arid months of June, July and August.
Population
The population of the Municipalities has risen in the past two decades by more than half:
Policy
Structure
The municipality of San Ignacio is divided into the following three cantons ( cantones ):
- Cantón San Ignacio - 35 086 inhabitants ( 2001)
- Cantón Santa Ana - 2,287 inhabitants
- Cantón Santa Rosa de Roca - 4,039 inhabitants