Santa Fe de YapacanÃ
Santa Fe de Yapacaní is a small town in the department of Santa Cruz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.
Location in near space
Santa Fe de Yapacaní is the largest town of the district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the Province of San Carlos Ichilo. The city lies at an altitude of 304 m on the right bank of the Río Yapacaní at the mouth of the Río Surutú seven kilometers east of the center city Yapacaní.
Geography
Santa Fe de Yapacani lies to the east in front of the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental on the outskirts of the Bolivian lowlands.
The average annual temperature of the region is about 24 ° C (see climate chart Santa Fe de Yapacaní ) and varies only slightly between nearly 21 ° C in June and July and over 26 ° C from November to January. The annual rainfall is about 1800 mm, with monthly rainfall between 60 mm in July and average maximum values of 200 to 300 mm in the summer months from December to February.
Traffic network
Southeast of Santa Fe de Yapacaní at a distance of 120 kilometers of road is Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.
Santa Fe de Yapacaní is located on the 1657 km long highway Ruta 4, which leads traversed by Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border in the west-east direction of the entire country and Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border. It leads over Cochabamba and Villa Tunari to Santa Fe de Yapacani and on about Santa Cruz to Puerto Suarez and Roboré. The road is completely paved from the Chilean border to Pailón, until later in it is unpaved.
Population
The population of the city has increased in the past two decades to approximately twice:
Due to the mid-20th century were made immigration from the Altiplano, it presents a certain amount of Quechua population in the municipality of San Carlos 23.8 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.