Urubichá

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

Location in near space

Urubicha is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Urubicha in the province Guarayos in the northwestern part of the department of Santa Cruz. The city lies at an altitude of 220 m on the right bank of the flowing northward Río Blanco, which flows in its further development in the Río Iténez / Guaporé, which forms the border between Brazil and the Bolivian northeast over long distances.

Geography

Urubicha is the Moxos level ( bolivian: Llanos de Moxos ), one of more than 100,000 square kilometers of flood savannah in the northern lowlands of Bolivia. The region's climate is a semi- humid climate of the warm tropics.

The mean average temperature of the region is about 25 ° C (see climate chart Urubicha ) and varies only slightly between 22 ° C in June and July and 27 ° C from October to February. The annual rainfall is about 1150 mm, with a weak dry season from June to September, with monthly rainfall of 45 mm, and a significant moisture from November to March, monthly rainfall between 140 and 200 mm.

Traffic network

Urubicha lies at a distance of 326 kilometers of road north of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From Santa Cruz from the paved highway Route 9, together with the Ruta 4 first in an easterly direction over Cotoca to Puerto Pailas, crossed the Rio Grande and separates fourteen miles later in Pailón. From here, the Ruta leads 9230 km north to Ascension de Guarayos and on to Guayaramerín in the extreme northeast of the country. On the northern outskirts of Ascension branches off a dirt road in a northeasterly direction and reaches 35 km away Urubicha.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by about 50 percent:

Due to the centuries-old regional population structures, the region has a high percentage of indigenous population in the municipality of Urubicha 91.0 percent of the population speak local languages ​​Chiquitano.

Culture

As before more than 300 years Jesuit missionaries arrived in the Bolivian rainforest, tried the religious to bring the indigenous population of Baroque music in Christianity. Just 76 years were sufficient to form the Chiquitano Indigenas masterful Baroque musicians, to 1767, the Jesuits were expelled from all of Latin America. Exactly two centuries later met the German priest Walter Neuwirth in Urubicha and continued the work of the Jesuits continued: He improved local living conditions created cooperatives and schools, and revived the tradition of classical music again. Since 1980 violins in Urubicha rebuilt, and today the country town has its own youth orchestra, 20 violin maker and a prestigious music school. The Youth Orchestra has played at festivals in Bolivia, Venezuela, Chile and Argentina and twice on concert tours in Germany.