Arrozales
Arrozales | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 154 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 382 m | |
Post Code | 06-0202-0200-3001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 22 ° 43 ′ S , 64 ° 17 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Tarija | |
province | Province of Aniceto Arce | |
climate | ||
Climate diagram Bermejo |
Arrozales is a town in the Tarija Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Arrozales is the central place of the canton Arrozales in the municipality of Bermejo in the south-eastern part of the province of Aniceto Arce . The village is located at the mouth of the Río Nueve at an altitude of 382 m on the right bank of the Río Grande de Tarija , which forms the border with neighboring Argentina here.
geography
Arrozales is located on the southeastern edge of the Bolivian Andes chain in the transition to the Gran Chaco , which stretches across northwest Paraguay , northeast Argentina and southeast Bolivia. The climate is subtropical with hot humid summers and moderately warm and dry winters.
The annual average temperature is 21 ° C, the average monthly values fluctuate between 14 ° C in June and July and 26 ° C in December and January (see Bermejo climate diagram). The annual precipitation is about 950 mm, with a six-month dry season from May to October and a wet season from December to March with more than 150 mm monthly precipitation.
population
The population of Arrozales has decreased dramatically over the past two decades:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | 369 | census |
2001 | 758 | census |
2013 | 154 | census |
Transport network
Arrozales is 228 kilometers by road south-east of Tarija , the capital of the department.
Arrozales is located on the highway Ruta 33 , of the city of Bermejo in the south to Caraparí leads; From Caraparí, the Ruta 29 continues to Campo Pajoso and meets the lowland highway Ruta 9 , which leads from Yacuiba in the south via the metropolis of Santa Cruz all the way north to Guayaramerín in the Beni lowlands on the Brazilian border.
From Bermejo to the northwest, the paved road Ruta 1 leads via Padcaya and Valle de Concepción (previously: Uriondo ) to the capital Tarija. The Ruta 1 traverses from there in a northerly direction the entire Bolivian Altiplano and performs on the cities Potosí , Oruro and El Alto to Desaguadero at the Peruvian border.
To the south, the Ruta Nacional 50 leads from Bermejo on the Argentine side to the northern Argentine cities of Aguas Blancas and Pichanal .
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Relief map 6725-IV of the Bermejo region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 698 kB)
- Relief map of the Bermejo region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 1.15 MB)
- Municipio Bermejo - General Maps No. 60202
- Municipio Bermejo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 265 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Tarija - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )