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| Santa Rosa | |
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| Municipality | |
Santa Rosa de(l) Yacuma | |
  Santa Rosa Location within Bolivia | |
| Coordinates: 13°00′S66°40′W / 13.000°S 66.667°W Coordinates: 13°00′S66°40′W / 13.000°S 66.667°W | |
| Country | Bolivia |
| Department | Beni |
| Province | José Ballivián |
| Seat | Santa Rosa |
| Time zone | -4 (UTC-4) |
Santa Rosa or Santa Rosa de(l) Yacuma is a municipality of the José Ballivián Province in the Beni Department of Bolivia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Santa Rosa de Yacuma.
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 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 is bounded by the Beni River, to the east it borders on the Yacuma Province of the Beni Department.
Beni, sometimes El Beni, is a northeastern department of Bolivia, in the lowlands region of the country. It is the second-largest department in the country, covering 213,564 square kilometers, and it was created by supreme decree on November 18, 1842 during the administration of General José Ballivián. Its capital is Trinidad.
