San José, Andrés Ibáñez

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

Location in near space

San José is the central place of the Canton of San Jose in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) La Guardia in the province of Andrés Ibáñez. The city is situated on the right bank of the River Pirai at an altitude of 507 m between the cities of La Guardia in the north and Santa Rita in the south.

Geography

San Jose is located in the humid tropical climate on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental. The region was covered before colonization by subtropical rainforest, but today it is mostly cultivated land.

The average annual temperature of the region is about 24 ° C (see climate chart El Torno), the average monthly temperatures vary between 20 ° C in June and July and 26 ° C from November to February. The annual rainfall is in the long-term average about 1100 mm, with a short dry season from July to September, with monthly rainfall of less than 50 mm is facing an extended humidity time, sometimes significantly beyond the November-March the monthly values ​​over 100 mm.

Traffic network

San Jose is located at a distance of 26 kilometers of road southwest of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From the center of Santa Cruz from the paved highway Ruta 7 performs as a four-lane " Grigota Avenue " in a southwesterly direction through La Guardia to San Jose and on about La Angostura, Samaipata and Comarapa to Cochabamba.

Population

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

Due to immigration indigenous people of the Altiplano during the 20th century, the region has a certain amount of Quechua population in the municipality of La Guardia 17.1 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.