San Julián, Santa Cruz

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

Location in near space

San Julián is a central place of the district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the Province of San Julián de Ñuflo Chávez. The city lies at an altitude of 247 m is about 35 km east of the Bolivian Río Grande.

Geography

San Julián is located in the Bolivian lowlands in the region Chiquitanía, one in vast regions still sparsely populated countryside between Santa Cruz and the Brazilian border.

The region's climate is a semi- humid climate of the warm subtropics. The average monthly temperatures vary during the year only slightly between 21-22 ° C (see climate chart San Ramón ) in the winter months of June and July with strong cold southerly winds, and 26 bis27 ° C of October to March.

The annual rainfall is in the long -term average at about 1000 mm, which falls mainly in the humidity from November to March, while arid months from July to September have monthly values ​​between 25 and 50 mm.

Traffic network

San Julián is located 158 kilometers by road from Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From Santa Cruz leads from the paved highway Ruta 4 about 47 km east across Cotoca after Pailón. Here she meets the Ruta 9, which arrives in a northerly direction over Los Troncos after another 111 km of San Julián. The Ruta 9 then continues on Trinidad in the extreme northeast of the country after Guayaramerin on the Brazilian border.

Population

The population of the town has grown in the past two decades to a multiple of: