Batraja
| Batraja | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 264 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 177 m | ||
| Post Code | 09-0201-0270-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 11 ° 18 ′ S , 67 ° 19 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Pando | ||
| province | Manuripi Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Sena |
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Batraja is a town in the Pando department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Batraja is the third largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) of Puerto Rico in the Manuripi province . The place is located at an altitude of 177 m, twenty kilometers north of the Río Madre de Dios , which joins the Río Beni further downstream at Riberalta . The closest town is Conquista seventeen kilometers east of Batraja.
geography
The town of Batraja is located in the Bolivian part of the Amazon basin in the northern part of the country, about one hundred kilometers as the crow flies south of the border with Brazil.
The mean average temperature of the region is 27 ° C and fluctuates only marginally between a good 25 ° C in June / July and 28 ° C from September to November (see Sena climate diagram). The annual precipitation is about 1,750 mm, with a pronounced dry season from June to August with monthly precipitation below 35 mm, and a humidity period from December to March with monthly precipitation of more than 200 mm.
Transport network
Batraja is located at a distance of 205 kilometers by road southeast of Cobija , the capital of the department.
Of Cobija from 370 kilometers takes highway Ruta 13 east over Porvenir to Puerto Rico , where they the orthon river crossing, and on about Batraja after Conquista. Almost thirty kilometers after Conquista, it crosses the Río Madre de Dios and continues via El Sena to El Triangulo ( El Choro ). In El Choro, Route 13 meets Route 8 , which leads from Guayaramerín and Riberalta in the north to Reyes , Rurrenabaque and Yucumo in the central Bolivian lowlands.
population
The population of the village has increased by around two thirds in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no data | census |
| 2001 | 169 | census |
| 2013 | 264 | census |
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 February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Puerto Rico region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 11.30 MB)
- Municipio Puerto Rico - General Maps No. 90201
- Municipio Puerto Rico - detailed map and population data (PDF; 908 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Pando - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 2.42 MB) ( Spanish )