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San Javier

San Javier is the seat of San Javier Municipality in , Santa Cruz Department, . The mission of San Javier is known as part of the Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos, declared in 1990 a World Heritage Site, as a former Jesuit Reduction.
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  • Type: Town with 7,120 residents
  • Description: town and municipality in Bolivia
  • Also known as: “San Javier, Bolivia”, “San Javier, Ñuflo de Chaves”, “San Javier, Ñuflo de Chávez”, and “San Javier, Santa Cruz”

Places of Interest

Highlights include San Javier Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport serving San Javier in the Santa Cruz Department of . The runway is 3 kilometres east of the town. The San Javier non-directional beacon is located 8.6 nautical miles west-southwest of the airport. is situated 3½ km east of San Javier.

San Javier

Latitude
-16.2739° or 16° 16′ 26″ south
Longitude
-62.5044° or 62° 30′ 16″ west
Population
7,120
Elevation
537 metres (1,762 feet)
IATA airport code
SJV
United Nations Location Code
BO SJV
Open location code
57MVPFGW+C6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 795493608
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3905621
Wiki­data ID
Q281844
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“San Javier” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سان خافيير”
  • Cebuano: “San Javier”
  • Chinese: “聖哈維爾”
  • Dutch: “San Javier”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سان خافيير”
  • French: “San Javier”
  • German: “San Javier”
  • Italian: “San Javier”
  • Japanese: “サン・ハビエル (ヌフロ・デ・チャベス郡)”
  • Japanese: “サン・ハビエル”
  • Persian: “سن خاویر، نیوفلو د چاوز”
  • Polish: “San Javier”
  • Portuguese: “San Javier”
  • Quechua: “San Javier”
  • Russian: “Сан-Хавьер (Боливия)”
  • Russian: “Сан-Хавьер”
  • Spanish: “San Javier”
  • Swedish: “San Javier, Santa Cruz”
  • Swedish: “San Javier”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “San Javier”. Photo: Diego Tirira, CC BY-SA 2.0.