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.. Baure Indians resided at the mission.Meireles, Denise Maldi. 1989. Guardiães da fronteira: Rio Guaporé, século XVIII. Petrópolis: Vozes. ISBN 85-326-0017-4.
Languages Camba Spanish is the primary vernacular lingua franca spoken in the town. The Joaquiniano dialect of Baure was also spoken in San Joaquín.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.
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 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.
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).World Gazetteer San Joaquin has been the site of a Machupo virus or Bolivian Hemorragic Fever outbreak in the 1960s.
Notable people Jeanine Áñez, politician
References
External links Detailed map of Mamoré Province San Joaquín climate (German)