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Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia)

Index Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia)

Santa Cruz, with an area of, is the largest of the nine constituent departments of Bolivia occupying about one-third (33,74%) of the territory of the country. [1]

82 relations: Agriculture, Andes, Andrés Ibáñez Province, Ascención de Guarayos, Ayoreo, Ángel Sandoval Province, Ñuflo de Chávez Province, Bolivia, Brazil, Buena Vista, Ichilo, Capital city, Castizo, Chaco War, Chané, Chiquitano, Chiquitos Province, Christianity, Comarapa, Concepción, Santa Cruz, Constitution of Bolivia, Cordillera Province (Bolivia), Cotton, Departments of Bolivia, El Mutún, Flemish people, Florida Province, Germans, Germán Busch Province, Governor, Gran Chaco, Guaraní people, Guarani language, Guarayos Province, Human Development Index, Ichilo Province, Ignacio Warnes Province, Inquisition, ISO 3166-2, Italians, Jews, José Miguel de Velasco Province, Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area, Lagunillas, Santa Cruz, Magnesium, Manuel María Caballero Province, Montero, Movement for Socialism (Bolivia), Natural gas, Obispo Santistevan Province, Official language, ..., Pantanal, Paraguay, Portachuelo, Portuguese people, President of Bolivia, Puerto Suárez, Rainforest, Referendum, Rice, Rubén Costas, Russian Mennonite, Samaipata, Bolivia, San Ignacio de Velasco, San José de Chiquitos, San Matías, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz autonomy referendum, 2008, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Sara Province, Sephardi Jews, Serranías Chiquitanas, Social Democratic Power, Soybean, Spaniards, Spanish language, Sugar, Tucavaca Valley Municipal Reserve, Vallegrande, Vallegrande Province, Verdes (Bolivia), Virgen de Cotoca, Warnes, Bolivia, White Bolivians. Expand index (32 more) »

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.

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Andes

The Andes or Andean Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world.

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Andrés Ibáñez Province

Andrés Ibáñez Province is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department, situated in the western part of the department.

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Ascención de Guarayos

Ascensión de Guarayos is a town in Bolivia.

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Ayoreo

The Ayoreo (Ayoreode, Ayoréo, Ayoréode) are an indigenous people of the Gran Chaco.

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Ángel Sandoval Province

Ángel Sandoval Province is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department and is situated in the department's eastern parts.

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Ñuflo de Chávez Province

Ñuflo de Chávez is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department and is situated in the northern central parts of the department.

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Bolivia

Bolivia (Mborivia; Buliwya; Wuliwya), officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Buena Vista, Ichilo

Buena Vista is a small town in the Bolivian lowlands in the Santa Cruz Department.

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Capital city

A capital city (or simply capital) is the municipality exercising primary status in a country, state, province, or other administrative region, usually as its seat of government.

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Castizo

Castizo is a Spanish word with a general meaning of "pure", "genuine" or representative of its race (from the Spanish: "casta").

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Chaco War

The Chaco War (1932–1935; Guerra del Chaco, Cháko Ñorairõ. Secretaría Nacional de Cultura de Paraguay) was fought between Bolivia and Paraguay over control of the northern part of the Gran Chaco region (known in Spanish as Chaco Boreal) of South America, which was thought to be rich in oil.

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Chané

Chané is the collective name for the southernmost Arawak-speaking peoples.

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Chiquitano

The Chiquitano are an indigenous people of Bolivia, with a small number also living in Brazil.

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Chiquitos Province

Chiquitos Province is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department, situated in the center of the department.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Comarapa

Comarapa is a small town in Bolivia.

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Concepción, Santa Cruz

Concepción is a town in the lowlands of Eastern Bolivia.

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Constitution of Bolivia

The current Constitution of Bolivia (Constitución Política del Estado; literally, the Political Constitution of the State) came into effect on February 7, 2009 when it was promulgated by President Evo Morales.

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Cordillera Province (Bolivia)

Cordillera is a province in the Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Departments of Bolivia

Bolivia is a unitary state consisting of nine departments (departamentos).

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El Mutún

El Cerro Mutún (Spanish for "the Mountain Mutún") is an iron ore deposit.

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Flemish people

The Flemish or Flemings are a Germanic ethnic group native to Flanders, in modern Belgium, who speak Dutch, especially any of its dialects spoken in historical Flanders, known collectively as Flemish Dutch.

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Florida Province

Florida is a province in the Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

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Germans

Germans (Deutsche) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history.

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Germán Busch Province

Germán Busch is a province in the Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

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Governor

A governor is, in most cases, a public official with the power to govern the executive branch of a non-sovereign or sub-national level of government, ranking under the head of state.

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Gran Chaco

The Gran Chaco or Dry Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semi-arid lowland natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, where it is connected with the Pantanal region.

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Guaraní people

Guaraní are a group of culturally related indigenous peoples of South America.

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Guarani language

Guarani, specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guarani (endonym avañe'ẽ 'the people's language'), is an indigenous language of South America that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani family of the Tupian languages.

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Guarayos Province

Guarayos is a province in the northwestern parts of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department.

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Human Development Index

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic (composite index) of life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators, which are used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.

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Ichilo Province

Ichilo is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department and is situated in the department's north-western parts.

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Ignacio Warnes Province

Ignacio Warnes is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department and is situated in the department's central parts.

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Inquisition

The Inquisition was a group of institutions within the government system of the Catholic Church whose aim was to combat public heresy committed by baptized Christians.

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ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and defines codes for identifying the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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Italians

The Italians (Italiani) are a Latin European ethnic group and nation native to the Italian peninsula.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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José Miguel de Velasco Province

José Miguel de Velasco or Velasco is a province in the Santa Cruz department of Bolivia.

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Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area

Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area (Parque Nacional y Area Natural de Manejo Integrado Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco) is the biggest national park in Bolivia and one of the largest in South America.

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Lagunillas, Santa Cruz

Lagunillas is a location in the Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia.

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Magnesium

Magnesium is a chemical element with symbol Mg and atomic number 12.

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Manuel María Caballero Province

Manuel María Caballero Province is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department and is situated in the department's western parts.

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Montero

Montero is a city & a municipality in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, about 50 km north of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

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Movement for Socialism (Bolivia)

The Movement for Socialism–Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (Movimiento al Socialismo–Instrumento Político por la Soberanía de los Pueblos, abbreviated MAS-IPSP, or simply MAS), alternately referred to as "Movement Toward Socialism" or "Movement to Socialism" (Movimiento al Socialismo), is a Bolivian left-wing socialist political movement led by Evo Morales, founded in 1998.

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Natural gas

Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.

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Obispo Santistevan Province

Obispo Santistevan (or: Santiesteban) is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz department and is situated in the department's western parts.

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Official language

An official language is a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction.

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Pantanal

The Pantanal is a natural region encompassing the world's largest tropical wetland area.

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Paraguay

Paraguay (Paraguái), officially the Republic of Paraguay (República del Paraguay; Tetã Paraguái), is a landlocked country in central South America, bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest.

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Portachuelo

Portachuelo is a small town in Bolivia.

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Portuguese people

Portuguese people are an ethnic group indigenous to Portugal that share a common Portuguese culture and speak Portuguese.

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President of Bolivia

The President of Bolivia (Presidente de Bolivia) officially known as the President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Presidente del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is head of state and head of government of Bolivia.

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Puerto Suárez

Puerto Suárez is an inland river port and municipality in Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

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Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with annual rainfall in the case of tropical rainforests between, and definitions varying by region for temperate rainforests.

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Referendum

A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is invited to vote on a particular proposal.

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Rice

Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice).

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Rubén Costas

Rubén Armando Costas Aguilera (born October 6, 1955 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santa Cruz) is a Bolivian politician and the current governor of Bolivia's Santa Cruz department for the Truth and Social Democracy (VERDES) party.

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Russian Mennonite

The Russian Mennonites (German: "Russlandmennoniten" occasionally Ukrainian Mennonites) are a group of Mennonites of German language, tradition and ethnicity, who are descendants of German-Dutch Anabaptists who settled for about 250 years in West Prussia and established colonies in the south west of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) beginning in 1789.

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Samaipata, Bolivia

Samaipata or Samaypata (Quechua samay to rest, pata elevated place / above, at the top / edge, bank (of a river), shore) is a small location in the Florida Province of the Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia.

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San Ignacio de Velasco

San Ignacio de Velasco, 'is the capital of the José Miguel de Velasco Province and the San Ignacio de Velasco Municipality in the Santa Cruz Department of Bolivia.

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San José de Chiquitos

San José de Chiquitos or simply San José is the capital of Chiquitos Province in the Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

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San Matías, Santa Cruz

San Matías (Santa Cruz) is a small town in Bolivia.

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Santa Cruz autonomy referendum, 2008

A referendum to approve the autonomy statute of Santa Cruz Department of Bolivia was held on 4 May 2008.

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Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Santa Cruz de la Sierra ('Holy Cross of the Mountain Range'), commonly known as Santa Cruz, is the largest city in Bolivia and the capital of the Santa Cruz department.

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Sara Province

Sara is a province in the Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

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Sephardi Jews

Sephardi Jews, also known as Sephardic Jews or Sephardim (סְפָרַדִּים, Modern Hebrew: Sefaraddim, Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm; also Ye'hude Sepharad, lit. "The Jews of Spain"), originally from Sepharad, Spain or the Iberian peninsula, are a Jewish ethnic division.

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Serranías Chiquitanas

The Serranías Chiquitanas are a group of low mountain ranges in the northeast of the Bolivian department of Santa Cruz.

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Social Democratic Power

The Social Democratic Power (Poder Democrático Social, PODEMOS) was a Bolivian political party based on pro-business goals.

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Soybean

The soybean (Glycine max), or soya bean, is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean, which has numerous uses.

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Spaniards

Spaniards are a Latin European ethnic group and nation.

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Spanish language

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 Latin America and Spain.

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Sugar

Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.

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Tucavaca Valley Municipal Reserve

Tucavaca Valley Municipal Reserve (Reserva Municipal Valle de Tucavaca) is a protected area in Bolivia situated in the Santa Cruz Department, Chiquitos Province, Roboré Municipality.

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Vallegrande

Vallegrande (Spanish: "Big Valley") is a small colonial town in Bolivia, located in the Department of Santa Cruz, some 125 km (bee-line) southwest of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

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Vallegrande Province

Vallegrande is a province in the Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

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Verdes (Bolivia)

Verdes (short for Verdad y Democracia Social, 'Truth and Social Democracy' — VERDES; the acronym means Greens) is a political party in the Department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia founded in 2009 and led by Rubén Costas.

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Virgen de Cotoca

The Virgen de Cotoca (literal translation: Virgin of Cotoca; figurative translation: Our Lady of Cotoca; variant: Blessed Virgin of Cotoco) is the patron saint for the Department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

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Warnes, Bolivia

Warnes is a town in Bolivia, named after Colonel Ignacio Warnes, a military leader in the South American war of independence.

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White Bolivians

White Bolivians or European Bolivians are Bolivian people whose ancestry lies within the continent of Europe, most notably Spain and Germany, and to a lesser extent, Italy and Croatia.

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Redirects here:

Department of santa cruz, Santa Cruz (department), Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia, Santa Cruz department, Santa Cruz, Boliva.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Department_(Bolivia)

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