Santa Rita (El Torno)

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

Location in near space

Santa Rita is the second largest city of the county ( bolivian: Municipio) El Torno in the province of Andrés Ibáñez. The city lies at an altitude of 516 m on the right bank of the river between the towns of El Torno Pirai and La Guardia.

Geography

Santa Rita is located in the tropical humid climate on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental. The region was covered before colonization by subtropical rainforest, but today it is mostly cultivated land. The region has a humid tropical climate on semihumides sultry with low day and night variations in temperatures.

The average annual temperature of the region is about 24 ° C (see climate chart El Torno), the average monthly temperatures vary between 20 ° C in June and July and 26 ° C from November to February. The annual rainfall is in the long-term average about 1100 mm, with a short dry season from July to September, with monthly rainfall of less than 50 mm is facing an extended humidity time, sometimes significantly beyond the November-March the monthly values ​​over 100 mm.

Traffic network

Santa Rita is located at a distance of 31 kilometers of road south west of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From the center of Santa Cruz from the paved highway Ruta 7 performs as a four-lane " Grigota Avenue " in a southwesterly direction through the towns of El Carmen and La Guardia to Santa Rita and on about El Torno, La Angostura, Samaipata and Comarapa to Cochabamba.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to more than double:

Due to immigration history of the population, it presents a significant proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of El Torno 27.7 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.