San Borja is a city in the

Beni Department Beni (), sometimes El Beni, is a northeastern Departments of Bolivia, department of Bolivia, in the lowlands region of the country. It is the second-largest department in the country (after Santa Cruz), covering 213,564 square kilometers (82,458 ...

in northern

Bolivia Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...

, It is the most populous city in the province of General José Ballivián.

Location

San Borja is the seat of the San Borja Municipality, 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 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 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 southeast Florida, United States ...

. 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.

Climate

Transport

By road, San Borja is situated west of the department's capital, ''Trinidad''. San Borja is connected towards the southwest with Yucumo situated on the road and a bus route

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- Yolosa/

Coroico Coroico is a town in Nor Yungas Province, in the La Paz Department of western Bolivia. History Coroico Viejo (Old Coroico) was founded above the river Quri Wayq'u ( Quechua ''quri'' gold, ''wayq'u'' valley, hispanicized spellings ''Coriguayco'' ...

Caranavi Caranavi is the capital of the Caranavi Province in the Yungas region of Bolivia. On 23 December 2009, part of the province was detached from the municipality of Caranavi to become the municipality of Alto Beni.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 Par ...

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

San Ignacio de Moxos San Ignacio de Moxos (or ''San Ignacio'') is a town in the Beni Department of northern Bolivia. History San Ignacio de Moxos was founded in 1689 by the Jesuit missionaries Antonio de Orellana, Juan de Espejo and Alvaro de Mendoza. Its first loc ...

and farther to

Trinidad Trinidad is the larger, more populous island of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the country. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is the southernmost island in ...

, the capital of the

. The airport of San Borja has regular services from two airlines:

Línea Aérea Amaszonas Línea Aérea Amaszonas S.A. operating as Amas Bolivia (legally as ''Compañía de Servicios de Transporte Aéreo Amaszonas S.A.'') was a regional airline based in Bolivia, headquartered in Santa Cruz de la Sierra with its administrative center ...

and TAM - Transporte Aéreo Militar (the Bolivian Military Airline)

Population

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

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

) *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

indigenous Indigenous may refer to: *Indigenous peoples *Indigenous (ecology) In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often populari ...

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