San Joaquín, Bolivia

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Town in Beni Department, Bolivia

13°02′29″S 64°40′05″W / 13.04139°S 64.66806°W / -13.04139; -64.66806Country

BoliviaDepartment

Beni DepartmentProvinceMamoré ProvinceElevation

466 ft (142 m)Population

(est. 2009)

• Total4,589Time zoneUTC-4 (BOT)

San Joaquín is a small agricultural town in the Beni Department in the Bolivian lowlands.

It is served by San Joaquín Airport.

History

The Jesuit mission of San Joaquín was founded in 1709.^[1] Baure Indians resided at the mission.^[2]

Languages

Camba Spanish is the primary vernacular lingua franca spoken in the town. The Joaquiniano dialect of Baure is also spoken in San Joaquín.^[3]^[4]

Location

San Joaquín is the administrative capital of Mamoré Province and is at an elevation of 142 m above sea level. It is just west of the Machupo River, a tributary of the Iténez River.

San Joaquín is 220 kilometres (140 mi) north of Trinidad, the department's capital.

Geography

San Joaquín is located in the Moxos Plains (Llanos de Moxos), at 100,000 km² one of the greatest wetlands of the Earth. Main vegetation in the area of San Joaquín is the tropical savanna.

Climate

The yearly precipitation of the region is 1,800 mm, with a distinct dry season from May to September. Monthly average temperatures vary from 24 °C und 29 °C over the year.

Climate data for San Joaquin
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	33 (92)	34 (93)	34 (94)	33 (92)	31 (88)	34 (93)	34 (93)	35 (95)	36 (97)	36 (96)	33 (92)	33 (91)	34 (93)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	22 (72)	22 (72)	22 (72)	22 (72)	18 (65)	19 (67)	18 (65)	18 (64)	20 (68)	21 (70)	22 (71)	23 (73)	21 (69)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	304.9 (12.00)	288.7 (11.37)	273.0 (10.75)	138.7 (5.46)	62.2 (2.45)	26.3 (1.04)	16.7 (0.66)	35.1 (1.38)	79.6 (3.13)	142.5 (5.61)	218.6 (8.61)	295.5 (11.63)	1,881.8 (74.09)
Source: Weatherbase ^[5]

Population

Over the past two decades, the town's population has risen by circa 30%, from 3,489 (census 1992) to 4,094 (census 2001) and 4,589 (2009 estimate).^[6] San Joaquin has been the site of a Machupo virus or Bolivian Hemorragic Fever outbreak in the 1960s.

Notable people

Jeanine Áñez, politician

References

^ Block, David (1994). Mission culture on the upper Amazon: native tradition, Jesuit enterprise, and secular policy in Moxos, 1660-1880. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-1232-1..
^ Meireles, Denise Maldi. 1989. Guardiães da fronteira: Rio Guaporé, século XVIII. Petrópolis: Vozes. ISBN 85-326-0017-4.
^ Danielsen, Swintha (2011). The personal paradigms in Baure and other South Arawakan languages. In Antoine Guillaume; Françoise Rose (eds.). International Journal of American Linguistics 77(4): 495-520.
^ Danielsen, Swintha; Terhart, Lena (2014). Paunaka. In Mily Crevels; Pieter Muysken (eds.). Lenguas de Bolivia, vol. III: Oriente, pp. 221-258. La Paz: Plural Editores.
^ "Weatherbase: Historical Weather for San Joaquin, Bolivia". Weatherbase. 2011. Retrieved on November 24, 2011.
^ World Gazetteer^{[dead link]}