Alto Ivon
| Alto Ivon | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 509 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 145 m | ||
| Post Code | 08-0201-0400-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 11 ° 52 ′ S , 66 ° 2 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Beni | ||
| province | Province of Vaca Díez | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Riberalta |
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Alto Ivon is a town in the Beni department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Alto Ivon is a town in the canton of Ivon and the second largest town in the municipality of Riberalta in the province of Vaca Díez . The place is located at an altitude of 145 m south of the city of Riberalta on the right, eastern bank of the Río Ivon , which flows into the Río Beni about 15 kilometers south of Riberalta .
geography
Alto Ivon is located in the Bolivian part of the Amazon basin in the north of the country.
The mean average temperature of the region is 26 ° C and fluctuates only slightly between 25 ° C in May and 27 to 28 ° C from December to February (see Riberalta climate diagram). The annual precipitation is around 1300 mm, with a pronounced dry season from June to August with monthly precipitation below 20 mm, and a humidity period from December to January with monthly precipitation of more than 200 mm.
Transport network
Alto Ivon is 525 kilometers by road north of Trinidad , the capital of the department, and 138 kilometers by road south of Riberalta , the nearest city.
From Trinidad, the 602 kilometer long national road Ruta 3 leads west to Yucumo and on to La Paz . In Yucumo, Ruta 3 meets the end of 696 kilometers long Ruta 8 , which leads north via Rurrenabaque and Reyes , reaches El Triangulo after 541 kilometers and continues from there to Riberalta and Guayaramerín on the Brazilian border.
About 41 kilometers south of El Triangulo, a dirt road branches off from Ruta 8 to the east and leads 25 kilometers through sparsely populated area to Alto Ivon .
population
The population of the village has increased slightly in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no data | census |
| 2001 | 479 | census |
| 2012 | 509 | census |
Most of the 500 or so Chácobos , an indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon region, live in Alto Ivon . The Chácobo language they speak is one of the pano languages .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Missouri Botanical Garden: The Chacobo in Beni, Bolivia (Engl.)
Web links
- Topographic map of the Comunidad Las Palmas region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio Riberalta - General Maps No. 80201
- Municipio Riberalta - detailed map and population data (PDF; 2.12 MB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Beni - Social data of the provinces and municipalities (PDF; 3.82 MB) ( Spanish )