San Rafael Municipality, Bolivia | |
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Municipality | |
Coordinates: 16°47′12.84″S60°40′25.68″W / 16.7869000°S 60.6738000°W Coordinates: 16°47′12.84″S60°40′25.68″W / 16.7869000°S 60.6738000°W | |
Country | |
Department | Santa Cruz Department |
Province | José Miguel de Velasco Province |
Seat | San Rafael de Velasco |
Government | |
• Mayor | Rosauro Flores Silva |
• President | Carmelo Flores Dorado |
Area | |
• Total | 3,793.20 sq mi (9,824.33 km2) |
Population (2001) | |
• Total | 5,017 |
San Rafael Municipality is the third municipal section of the José Miguel de Velasco Province in the Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia. San Rafael de Velasco is the seat of the municipality. Its mission church is part of the World Heritage Site Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos .
Municipalities in Bolivia are administrative divisions of the entire national territory governed by local elections. Municipalities are the third level of administrative divisions, below departments and provinces. Some of the provinces consist of only one municipality. In these cases the municipalities are identical to the provinces they belong to.
José Miguel de Velasco or Velasco is a province in the Santa Cruz department of Bolivia. Its capital is San Ignacio de Velasco. The province is named after the Bolivian president José Miguel de Velasco Franco. It was created by law on October 12, 1880, during the presidency of Narciso Campero. Until its creation it was integrated into Chiquitos Province.
Santa Cruz, with an area of 370,621 km2 (143,098 sq mi), is the largest of the nine constituent departments of Bolivia occupying about one-third (33.74%) of the territory of the country. It is located in the eastern part of the country, sharing borders in the north and east with Brazil and with Paraguay in the south.
The predominant language spoken in the San Rafael Municipality is Spanish. [1]
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in the Americas and Spain. It is a global language and the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese.
Language | Inhabitants |
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Quechua | 29 |
Aymara | 22 |
Guaraní | 13 |
Another native | 89 |
Spanish | 4,600 |
Foreign | 63 |
Only native | 11 |
Native and Spanish | 136 |
Only Spanish | 4,469 |
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