Concepción (Santa Cruz)

"This article is about the Bolivian town. For other towns/cities named Concepción, see Concepción."

Concepción is a town in the eastern Bolivia, north of Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz de la Sierra). Concepción is the capital of the Ñuflo de Chávez Province in the Santa Cruz Department.

Concepción is known as a Jesuit mission town, cf. http://www.boliviabella.com/concepcion.html

The climate in the Concepción area is typical of the Bolivian lowlands east of the Andes, and weather data from Concepción is used to illustrate the weather and climate of the region:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/country_guides/results.shtml?tt=TT001650 refers to a table for average conditions in Concepción. (Note that BBC mis-spell Concepción with a t: Conceptión).

Also the Lonely Planet's Bolivia guide, 6th Edition / April 2007, uses weather data from Concepción in a climate chart (page 368).