San Pedro (Santistevan)

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

Location in near space

San Pedro is the central place of the district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the province of San Pedro Obispo Santistevan. The city lies at an altitude of 223 m in the wetland area between the rivers Rio Pirai and Rio Grande. The municipality of San Pedro with about 10,000 inhabitants, is the colonization area and is used for intensive agriculture.

Geography

The municipality of San Pedro is located in the humid tropical climate of the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental. The region has been developed only in recent decades and was covered before colonization by subtropical rainforest, but today it is mostly cultivated land.

The mean average temperature of the region is close to 25 ° C (see climate chart San Pedro), the monthly values ​​vary between 21 ° C in June / July and 26 to 27 ° C from October to March. The annual rainfall is nearly 1500 mm, the monthly rainfall are productive and are between 50 mm and 250 mm in July in January.

Traffic network

San Pedro is located at a distance of 149 km from Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From the center of Santa Cruz leads the paved highway Ruta 4 about 57 km north to Montero, from there a regional Landstraßedie Ruta 10 heading north over 92 km above General Saavedra, Mineros and Fernández Alonso to San Pedro and continues in a northwesterly direction by Hardeman.

Population

The population of the city has increased in the past two decades by about two-thirds:

Because of the 1960s funded by the immigration policy indigenous people from the Altiplano, it presents a significant proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of San Pedro 54.9 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.