San Pedro de Buena Vista

San Pedro de Buena Vista (in short: San Pedro) is a village in the department of Potosí in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

San Pedro is home to the administration of the province of Charcas and central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) San Pedro de Buena Vista. The village lies at an altitude of 2668 m on the narrow ridge of a mountain ridge on the Río San Pedro, the 90 km unites below the city with the Río Caine for Río Grande, a tributary of the Amazon.

Geography

San Pedro de Buena Vista is located in the Bolivian Cordillera Central in the transition region to the Bolivian lowlands.

The climate is pleasantly balanced because of the altitude, but for much of the year, very dry. The mean average temperature of the region is about 18 ° C (see climate chart Toro Toro), the monthly means vary only slightly between 14.5 ° C in July and 20 ° C from November to January. The annual rainfall is about 560 mm, with a very pronounced dry season from April to October month rainfall less than 25 mm, and a humidity season from December to February, more than 100 mm month precipitation.

Traffic network

San Pedro de Buena Vista is located 180 kilometers by road from Cochabamba, the capital of the departments of Cochabamba to the south.

From Cochabamba leads in a westerly direction the paved highway Ruta 4, which has met with Caracollo on the north- south running Ruta 1 and to the south leads to Potosí. At a distance of 37 kilometers south-west of Cochabamba branches at Parotani a dirt road in a southeasterly direction and reaches after thirty kilometers, the city Capinota. Three kilometers south of Capinota branches off another highway to the south, crossing the Río Arque and further leads to the village of Arque. Shortly after crossing the river turn one track branches to the south and reaches 22 kilometers after the village Apillapampa, overcomes in its further course pass heights of 4,000 m and ends after a further 85 kilometers to San Pedro de Buena Vista.

Population

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

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of San Pedro de Buena Vista 98.6 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.