1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Bolivia
Compare this sourced profile of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Santa Cruz de la Sierra—1,831,434, America/La_Paz, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city in eastern Bolivia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Santa Cruz de la Sierra is GeoNames ID 3904906. Its recorded administrative path is Santa Cruz Department → Bolivia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Santa Cruz de la Sierra occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-13; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Santa Cruz de la Sierra ranks 235 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Bolivia entries it ranks 1; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 31. Its 1,831,434 population value is 1.37 times the 1,336,355 median for the country cohort and 2.24 times the 816,326 regional median. Santa Cruz de la Sierra is rank 1 among the 2 selected Bolivia entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Santa Cruz de la Sierra's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Santa Cruz de la Sierra's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Cochabamba at 318.929 km with 841,276 recorded people; Cuiabá at 792.803 km with 618,124 recorded people; Salta at 814.276 km with 520,683 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 495.347 km. Compared with Cochabamba, Santa Cruz de la Sierra's recorded population is 2.18 times as large. Against Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Cochabamba follows Cochabamba → Bolivia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Bolivia cohort, uses the shared America/La_Paz identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Santa Cruz de la Sierra's. Against Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Cuiabá follows Cuiaba → Mato Grosso → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Brazil cohort rather than Bolivia, uses America/Cuiaba instead of America/La_Paz, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Santa Cruz de la Sierra's. Against Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Salta follows Departamento Capital → Salta → Argentina in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Argentina cohort rather than Bolivia, uses America/Argentina/Salta instead of America/La_Paz, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Santa Cruz de la Sierra's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,123 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Santa Cruz de la Sierra's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3904906, the coordinate pair 17.7863 / 63.1812, country rank 1 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 3919968 at 318.929 km bind Santa Cruz de la Sierra to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Santa Cruz de la Sierra's reference point is 17.7863° south and 63.1812° west. The IANA identifier America/La_Paz is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Santa Cruz de la Sierra's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Santa Cruz de la Sierra's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Santa Cruz de la Sierra's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Santa Cruz de la Sierra, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Santa Cruz de la Sierra's closest other entries in this atlas are Cochabamba (318.929 km), Cuiabá (792.803 km), Salta (814.276 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.