San Joaquín is a small agricultural town in the Beni Department in the Bolivian lowlands.

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San Joaquín
town
San Joaquín Mission Church
San Joaquín Location of San Ignacio in Bolivia
Coordinates: 13°02′29″S 64°40′05″W
Country	Bolivia
Department	Beni Department
Province	Mamoré Province
Elevation	466 ft (142 m)
Population  (est. 2009)
• Total	4,589
Time zone	UTC-4 (BOT)

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It is served by San Joaquín Airport.

The Jesuit mission of San Joaquín was founded in 1709.^[1] Baure Indians resided at the mission.^[2]

Camba Spanish is the primary vernacular lingua franca spoken in the town. The Joaquiniano dialect of Baure is also spoken in San Joaquín.^[3][4]

San Joaquín is the administrative capital of Mamoré Province and is at an elevation of 142 m above sea level. It is just west of the Machupo River, a tributary of the Iténez River.

San Joaquín is 220 kilometres (140 mi) north of Trinidad, the department's capital.

San Joaquín is located in the Moxos Plains (Llanos de Moxos), at 100,000 km² one of the greatest wetlands of the Earth. Main vegetation in the area of San Joaquín is the tropical savanna.

The yearly precipitation of the region is 1,800 mm, with a distinct dry season from May to September. Monthly average temperatures vary from 24 °C und 29 °C over the year.

Over the past two decades, the town's population has risen by circa 30%, from 3,489 (census 1992) to 4,094 (census 2001) and 4,589 (2009 estimate).^[6] San Joaquin has been the site of a Machupo virus or Bolivian Hemorragic Fever outbreak in the 1960s.

• Jeanine Áñez, politician