Santa Cruz de la Sierra
City in Bolivia: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Northern Skyline Santa Cruz: Rodolfo Barriga, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Santa Cruz de la Sierra is a city in Bolivia, in Santa Cruz Department. About 1.8 million people live in the city proper, making it the 2nd largest city of Bolivia in our atlas.
It lies at 17.79° S, 63.18° W, about 433 m (1,421 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/La_Paz time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Green dots: other major cities of Bolivia. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Santa Cruz de la Sierra has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). The warmest month is usually Oct, with average highs near 33°C (91°F); the coolest nights come in Jul at about 15°C (60°F). Around 1,139 mm (45 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Jan.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in BoliviaNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Sucre · 260 km
- Sacaba · 305 km
- Cochabamba · 318 km
- Quillacollo · 330 km
- Potosí · 337 km
- Oruro · 414 km
- Tarija · 447 km
- La Paz · 544 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 3904906 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q170688 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Northern Skyline Santa Cruz: Rodolfo Barriga, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Estadio Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera SC: Parallelepiped09, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Estadio juan carlos duran: Alejandroortega, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
