Bagual
| Bagual | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 327 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 463 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0301-0200-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 51 ′ S , 63 ° 23 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | Gran Chaco Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Yacuiba |
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Bagual (also El Bagual ) is a scattered settlement in the Tarija Department in the extreme south of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Bagual is the tenth largest town in the Caiza J canton in the Yacuiba municipality in the Gran Chaco province . Bagual is located at an altitude of 463 m three kilometers north of the Quebrada Yuquirenda, which flows over the Quebrada Sanja Honda to the Río Pilcomayo .
geography
Bagual is located on the southeast edge of the Bolivian Andes chain in the lowlands of the subtropical 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 almost 22 ° C, the average monthly values fluctuate between 15 ° C in June / July and 26 ° C in January (see Yacuiba climate diagram). The annual precipitation is almost 1100 mm, with a four-month dry season from June to September with monthly precipitation below 15 mm and a humidity period from December to March with 160 to 200 mm monthly precipitation.
population
The population of the scattered settlement has more than doubled in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 120 | census |
| 2012 | 327 | census |
Transport network
Bagual lies at a distance of 336 kilometers by road southeast of Tarija , the capital of the department.
From Tarija, the Ruta 11 trunk road leads east over the cities of Entre Ríos and Palos Blancos for 250 kilometers to Villamontes . There it meets the north-south running Ruta 9 , which leads south via Sachapera to Villa El Carmen and on via Palmar Chico and Yacuiba to the Argentine border.
In Villa El Carmen, a dirt road branches off to the east from Ruta 9 and reaches Bagual via Caiza “J” , Villa Ingavi after 24 kilometers and Crevaux on the Pilcomayo River after another 53 kilometers .
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 dated February 6, 2017 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
Web links
- Relief map 6928-III of the Comunidad Yuquirenda region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 410 kB)
- Relief map of the Villamontes region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.68 MB)
- Municipio Yacuiba - General Maps No. 60301
- Municipio Yacuiba - detailed map and population data (PDF; 407 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Tarija - social data of the provinces and municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )