San Lorenzo (Tarija)

San Lorenzo (also: Villa San Lorenzo) is a country town in the department of Tarija in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

San Lorenzo is a central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) San Lorenzo and the administrative seat of the province Eustaquio Méndez. The city lies at an altitude of 2002 m at the mouth of the Río Tojtiwaysho in the Río Nuevo Guadalquivir, 15 kilometers north of Tarija, the capital of the department.

Geography

San Lorenzo is located at the southeastern edge of the plateau of the Bolivian Altiplano to the transition to the lowlands. The climate is because of the internal situation in more than half the year dry, but much less rough than the plateau and has a typical diurnal climate, in which the temperature fluctuations between day and night are generally significantly greater than the seasonal variation.

The average annual temperature of the region is 19 ° C (see climate chart Tarija ) and varies only slightly between 15 ° C in June / July and 22 ° C from December to February. The annual precipitation is about 550 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to October month rainfall below 30 mm, and a humidity season from December to February, over 100 mm month precipitation.

Population

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

In San Lorenzo one of the great leaders of the Bolivian independence was born, Don Eustaquio Méndez, which the province derives its name. In the museum Casa del Moto Méndez is still a part of his personal property and his weapons issued.

Townscape

A part of the townscape has as originating from the 1709 church, a colonial ambience, with richly carved balconies and cobbled streets.

Traffic network

San Lorenzo is located at a distance of fifteen kilometers of road north of Tarija, the capital of the department of the same name.

By Tarija leads the paved highway Ruta 1, traversed by Bermejo in the south to the Argentine border the entire Bolivian highlands in north-south direction to the Peruvian border in Desaguadero while except Tarija also the cities of Potosí, Oruro and El Alto happened. Twelve kilometers north of Tarija branches at Rancho Norte a paved road to the north and reached after three kilometers of San Lorenzo.