Location

San Borja is the seat of the

San Borja Municipality San Borja is the second municipal section of the José Ballivián Province in the Beni Department of Bolivia. The seat of the municipality is the town of San Borja. Languages The languages spoken in the San Borja Municipality are mainly S ...

, the second municipal section of the

José Ballivián Province José Ballivián is a province of the Beni Department in northern Bolivia. It is named for José Ballivián, a general and former president of Bolivia who lived from 1805 until 1852. The province has a north-south extent. To the west the province ...

. The city is located at an elevation of 197 m on the left bank of ''Río Maniqui'', a tributary of Río Rapulo which flows into Río Mamoré.

Geography

San Borja sits on the far southwestern edge of the Llanos de Moxos. San Borja straddles the transition zone from flat mosaics of floodplains and forest islands, to Southwestern Amazonian Rainforest. San Borja's orography is generally homogenous and flat. San Borja has a tropical monsoon climate, type (Am) in the Köppen classification system bordering on a

tropical rainforest climate A tropical rainforest climate, humid tropical climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator. There are some other areas at higher latitudes, such as the coast of southea ...

. Rain is plentiful but divided between a distinct wet and dry season. Like many areas in Bolivia and Latin America generally, San Borja is subject to considerable fluctuations in seasonal and annual precipitation, particularly as a consequence of climate-change related anomalies.

Transport

By road, San Borja is situated 230 km west of the department's capital, ''Trinidad''. San Borja is connected towards the southwest with Yucumo situated on the road and a bus route La Paz - Yolosa/

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- Caranavi -

Rurrenabaque Rurrenabaque is a small town in the north of Bolivia on the Beni River. It is the capital of Rurrenabaque Municipality. In recent years it has become popular with international tourism as it is an easy gateway for visits to Madidi National Park ( ...

. Yucumo is halfway between Caranavi and Rurrenabaque. Towards the east of San Borja ''Route 3'' leads to San Ignacio de Moxos and farther to

Trinidad Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmos ...

, the capital of the Beni Department. The airport of San Borja has regular services from two airlines:

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and

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(the Bolivian Military Airline) San Borja is a city in the Beni Department in northern Bolivia, It is the most populous city in the province of General José Ballivián.

Population

The town's population has increased strongly over the past three decades: *1976: 4,613 inhabitants (

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...

) *1992: 11,072 inhabitants (census) *2001: 16,273 inhabitants (census) *2010: 24,610 inhabitants (est.) In spite of high migration figures over the past decades, the city still has a noteworthy percentage of

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population; 17.7 percent of the San Borja Municipality population speak local indigenous languages.Indicadores Sociodemográficos 1992-2001

Maps

www.mirabolivia.com/mapas
(four different types)
www.mirabolivia.com/mapa_muestra.php?id_mapa=12
(road map sheet showing San Borja and Yucumo)

References

External links

Satellite map at Maplandia.com
{{Authority control Populated places in Beni Department Jesuit Missions of Moxos